“The Canadian Poetry Archive features selected poems from over 100 early English- and French-language Canadian poets. Digitized from public domain anthologies found in the National Library of Canada’s rich literature collection, the poems represent some of Canada’s most notable poetry from the 19th and early 20th centuries.”
Now under the aegis of Library and Archives Canada, the Canadian Poetry Archive celebrated the First-ever World Poetry Day on March 21, 2000.
Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.lac-bac.gc.ca/canvers/index-e.html
Canadian Poetry: An Electronic Resource is edited by D.M.R. Bentley. This site features a press, a journal, and a Canadian poetry resource directory among other archives.
“The Canadian Poetry Press was founded in 1986 for the purposes of publishing scholarly editions of early Canadian long poems. Since then the Press has expanded its mandate to include editions of the work of the Confederation poets and critical studies of Canadian poetry.”
“Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews is a refereed journal devoted to the study of poetry from all periods in Canada. It is published twice yearly, in the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter…. Its first issue was published in 1977.”
Explore also Canadian Poets:An Annotated List of Resources on the Web, featuring Notable Contemporary Canadian Poets, Confederation Poets, Journals and Literary Databases, compiled and reviewed by Julia C. Obert.
University of Western Ontario, London,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.canadianpoetry.ca/
A listing of contemporary Canadian poets.
University of Toronto, Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/index_poet.htm
Canadian Women Poets is “a research website dedicated to documenting titles of the primary work of, and secondary work about, Canada’s best female poets. Each of the poets included on this site is featured on her own page, which lists primary work and criticism, and when possible, includes biographical details and honours the poet has been awarded.” Co-owned and maintained by Marilyn Rose and Erica Kelly.
Brock University, St. Catherines,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.brocku.ca/canadianwomenpoets/
“This site profiles the Canadian writers included in Athabasca University’s literature and language courses. However anyone interested in reading and discussing literary works is encouraged to get involved in the literary discussions. In addition to writers profiled by faculty at Athabasca University we have include selected links to existing web sites on Canadian writers.”
Athabasca University (Canada's Open University), Athabasca,
Alberta,
Canada
http://www.athabascau.ca/writers/
“Now in its third decade, Descant is a quarterly journal publishing new and established contemporary writers and visual artists from Canada and around the world.”
Sign up for Descant’s email list. See the PDF of contributors from 1970-2006. Check out their internships. And explore their new literary outreach website Now Hear)) This!.
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.descant.ca/
“The home of Poetry and Self-Publishing Opportunities.” Hidden Brook Press is both a trade publisher and a contract publisher.
Also home of the Canadian Poet Registry with over 400 poets listed, and of a listing of Canadian Poetry and Writers Organizations.
Brighton,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.hiddenbrookpress.com/
“The League of Canadian Poets, a non-profit arts service organization, is the national association of professional publishing and performing poets in Canada.”
Post events on their event calendar. Check out the Poetry Spoken Here Webstore, the Who’s who directory of members of the league, and the benefits of membership. Students and teachers will love the offshoot site youngpoets.ca.
Canada
http://www.poets.ca
“Magazines Canada is Canada’s leading professional magazine industry association, representing over 300 of the country’s consumer titles. The member-driven, not-for-profit organization strives to serve Canadian magazines of all scope and size through ongoing advocacy and special initiatives.”
Canada
http://genuinecanadianmagazines.ca/
““Northwest Passages is a virtual bookstore and information resource for readers, scholars, and students of Canadian literature.”
In addition to this overview of Canadian literary awards, they also have an extensive CanlitLINKS page, offering “the largest set of Canadian literature links on the Internet”. Subscribe to their monthly email newsletter, The Compass.
Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada
http://www.nwpassages.com/awards.asp
“Northwest Passages is a virtual bookstore and information resource for readers, scholars, and students of Canadian literature. Founded in 1996, by Rob Stocks and Paul Martin, Northwest Passages operates out of Vancouver, British Columbia…. Northwest Passages focuses on a very specific niche: Canadian fiction, poetry, drama, and literary criticism. By so doing, we have taken a deliberate step to position ourselves as the complete antithesis of the online superstores; rather than trying to address some of the needs of everyone, we have chosen to focus on all of the needs of a particular group of readers.”
Northwest Passages ships worldwide. Check out their overview of Canadian literary awards and their extensive “CanlitLINKS”: page, offering “the largest set of Canadian literature links on the Internet.” Subscribe to their monthly email newsletter, The Compass.
Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada
http://www.nwpassages.com/
Pandora's Collective: Promoting the Arts That Inspire the World to Take Notice of Itself. “Founded in June 2002 by poets Bonnie Nish and Sita Carboni, the collective is “dedicated to promoting literacy and self-expression in the community.”
Check out their Vancouver Literary Event Listings page and explore their Poets Directory.
Contest page — Next contest: Kisses and Popsicles Spring Poetry Contest (Deadline May 15, 2008, Winners announced June 1, 2008).
Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada
http://www.pandorascollective.com/
“Quill & Quire is the monthly magazine of the Canadian book trade. Its primary audience is publishers, booksellers, librarians, writers, students and educators, and other media in every province.”
An online edition called Quill & Quire Omni is updated with book industry news daily and has a section of book reviews including reviews of poetry books (type “poetry” in the search-the-archives box). Various paid memberships allow further access to resources such as electronic access to Qull & Quire’s big publications: The Book Trade in Canada and the Canadian Publishers Directory.
Canada
http://www.quillandquire.com/
“Representative Poetry Online, version 3.0, includes 3,162 English poems by 500 poets from Caedmon, in the Old English period, to the work of living poets today. It is based on Representative Poetry, established by Professor W. J. Alexander of University College, University of Toronto, in 1912 (one of the first books published by the University of Toronto Press), and used in the English Department at the University until the late 1960s…. Its electronic founder and editor since 1994 is Ian Lancashire, who is a member of the Department of English, University of Toronto.”
The site also includes an online archive of historical “Prose and Verse Criticism of Poetry”.
University of Toronto, Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display/index.cfm
“The Six Nations Writers are the storytellers of today who will share their stories with all who enter this site. We all share a common literary goal to carry on our ancestral storytelling tradition through our written words.”
Features: Meet the writers | Young voices | Onkwawennahson’a Our Voices Spoken Word CD
Six Nations of the Grand River,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.sixnationswriters.com/
“In July 2005 - 17 International Spoken Word artists and organizers met at The Banff Centre for the Arts, forming a lobby group and network to further the development of Spoken Word in Canada and Internationally… As a collective this group, called SWAN (Spoken Word Arts Network), will function not only as artists but also as activists. “
SWAN also has a Poets Database: “Our database of poets is sure to get your attention. We are compiling a database of poets around the world and if you are a working poet, please feel free to join.”
Canada
http://www.spokenwordarts.net/
“Since its publication in book form in 1985, The Canadian Encyclopedia has provided the most comprehensive, objective and accurate source of information on Canada for students, readers and scholars across Canada and throughout the world. As a first source for information on all Canadian topics The Canadian Encyclopedia has continued to grow through several iterations in print and on CD-ROM, culminating in this online version published by the Historica Foundation.”
Canada
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCECategories&Params=A1SUB7CAT228
“Twenty-first century literature since 1999.” TDR is an international online magazine of fiction, poetry, reviews, interviews, opinion and other important stuff. (The site has an extensive links page).
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.danforthreview.com/
“For two decades, Wordwrights Canada has helped those who strive for a high professional standard in their writing, be it fiction, literary nonfiction, or poetry.” Founded by Susan Ioannou in 1985, Wordwrights Canada offers an online poetry writing course, a companion handbook for poets A Magical Clockwork, Canadian student writing resources, and Canadian links of interest to writers.
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www3.sympatico.ca/susanio/WWC.html
“Culture.ca, Canada’s cultural gateway, is an initiative of the Department of Canadian Heritage, as part of the Canadian Culture Online Strategy.”
Writing @ Culture.ca | Poetry @ Culture.ca | Spoken Word @ Culture.ca
Canada
http://www.culture.ca/explore-explorez-e/Arts/Writing
“Canadian Poets Online has been researched and programmed by three doctoral candidates in the English Dept. at the University of Calgary. As the project currently stands, this site only addresses Canadian poets and poetry…. It is our hope that, in the future, others will want to expand these initial efforts to include more poets and other genres.”
“Through this electronic project, we have provided an organized guide to the chronological, geographical, and publication histories of selected Twentieth-Century Canadian poets writing in English. Our goal is to provide the public and the University community with an organized pedagogical tool to assist research on the history and contemporary concerns of Canadian poetry written in English. “
English Department at the University of Calgary,
Alberta,
Canada
http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/frames.html
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“On the bioregional E-mail list someone asked the following question:’I would be interested in hearing from any readers of this list who consider themselves more or less serious students of bioregionalism, what you think are the key or essential pieces of bioregional literature. What are the core, or definitive works? What are some of the more recent works that seem to offer promise in further developing the bioregional paradigm? What scholarly journals are sympathetic to bioregional perspectives?’”
Here are the responses.
International
http://www.sustainable-city.org/books/canon.htm
“AuthorYellowPages.com is a searchable directory of author websites…. Please note that all listings here are made by authors.” Costs moolah to list.
International
http://authoryellowpages.com/
“Luminarium is the labor of love of Anniina Jokinen.” She first created the site 1996 “to provide a starting point for students and enthusiasts of English Literature.”
It now has over 3300 pages, covering Middle English Literature (1350-1485), Sixteenth Century Renaissance English Literature (1485-1603), Early 17th Century English Literature (1603-1660), Restoration and 18th Century English Literature (1660-1785). And a Margaret Atwood bibilography to boot.
International
http://www.luminarium.org/
“Thousands of poems and poets. Poetry search engine.” Sign up for the DailyPoems email list. Site has vast collection of free poetry e-books in PDF.
Warning: pop ups!
International
http://poemhunter.com/
Archived from 1999-2001, “Readme is an online journal of poetics featuring interviews, essays and reviews germane to contemporary poetry. Poetry published only in tandem with author interviews and/or critical prose, except in cases of poem-as-reading/critique.” Edited by Gary Sullivan.
Check out link directories for 20th (& 21st!) century non-mainstream poets and writers and for online magazines, organizations and ‘theme’ pages germane to 20th/21st century nonmainstream writing.
International
http://home.jps.net/~nada/
“The Literary Encyclopedia is a state-of-the-art reference work focused on literature originally written in English or translated into English. All of its entries have been written since 1999 by a network of over 1450 scholars and experts (listed here) and edited by a distinguished scholarly board. It can therefore be cited and quoted with authority….”—Robert Clark, Editor, 12 October 2006
The Literary Encyclopedia is “owned collectively by its editors and writers.”
International
http://www.litencyc.com/
“Welcome to the World Poetry Directory, a website created and hosted by UNESCO following the proclamation of World Poetry Day.”
“This website brings you lists of festivals, prizes, journals and associations of the world of poetry.”
(“March 21 was proclaimed World Poetry Day at the 30th session of the General Conference of UNESCO in Paris in 1999.”)
International
http://www.unesco.org/poetry/bienvenue.php?initia=english
Category:Canadian poets, Category:Canadian poetry, List of Canadian poets, List of Canadian writers, List of poets, Poetry anthologies, List of poetry awards, List of years in poetry, Broadview Anthology of Poetry, TISH, Four horsemen, Concrete poetry, Spoken word … just for teasers. Consult. Edit.
International
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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