“The Malahat Review celebrates its fortieth year in print this October (2007) and also marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Robin Skelton, the magazine’s co-founder and long-time editor.”

It’s happening in Victoria — the party, the talk (by Robert Bringhurst), the gala (with Marilyn Bowering, Robert Bringhurst, Linda Rogers, Harold Rhenisch, Neile Graham, Derk Wynand, and Rhonda Batchelor reading), and the puppet show (Tim Gosley performs “Robin Skelton: A Living Collage”).

Date: Wednesday, October 10 - Sunday, October 14, 2007
Victoria,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://malahatreview.ca/at_forty.html

Amy’s “tribute to Canadian author and poet, Dennis Lee.”

Canada
http://www.AlligatorPie.ca/

Anne Carson won the Griffin Prize for Poetry in Canada in 2001 with Men in the Off Hours “… Her first book published in Britain, Glass and God, was shortlisted for the 1998 Forward Prize; her second, Autobiography of Red, was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the T.S. Eliot Prize. She has been the recipient of the Lannan Award, a Pushcart Prize, and the MacArthur Fellowship, and was named a member of the Order of Canada in August, 2005. Her recent works include Decreation, which combines poetry with opera libretto, oratorio, essays and more, published by Knopf, and her translation of Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides, published by New York Review Books Classics.”

Canada
http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2001.php?t=1

“In addition to winning the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prize, Anne Simpson’s second collection of poetry, Loop, was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Award in 2003. Her first collection of poetry, Light Falls Through You (2000), won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize…. “

Antigonish,  Nova Scotia,  Canada
http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2004.php?t=3

Online interview with bissett conducted by Adeena Karasick, February 2000.

Canada
http://home.jps.net/~nada/bissett.htm

“Christian Bök’s Eunoia has had twelve reprints and sold 11,000 copies since its publication in 2001, a phenomenal success story by Canadian standards. He is the author of the acclaimed Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award for Best Poetic Debut. Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press….”

Canada
http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2002.php?t=1

“In 1983 and 1984, bpNichol used an Apple IIe computer and the Apple BASIC programming language to create First Screening, a suite of a dozen programmed, kinetic poems. Jim Andrews has worked with fellow poets Lionel Kearns, Marko Niemi, Dan Waber, and Geof Huth to make FIRST SCREENING available on the Web.”

Victoria,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://vispo.com/bp

Margert Avison’s “work has been recognized with two Governor General’s Awards for Poetry (Winter and Sun and No Time), by three honorary doctorates and by an officership in the Order of Canada.” Winning the Griffin Prize for Poetry in 2003 for Concrete and Wild Carrot , “her other publications include The Dumbfounding, sunblue, Selected Poems, A Kind of Perseverance (prose) and Not Yet but Still…. Avison’s most recent work is a new collection entitled Momentary Dark, published in early 2006.”

Canada
http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2003.php?t=1

“In the sixties-through-eighties, Vancouver’s Lionel Kearns produced video poems, visual poems, and poemy poems that were remarkably prescient in their relevance to contemporary digital poetics. This project presents that work by Kearns and meditates on its relation to contemporary digital poetics via putzing with Kearns’s work in interactive pieces.”

Putzing by Jim Andrews at Vispo.com.

Vancouver/Victoria,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://vispo.com/kearns

“Many of Canada’s most renowned poets salute a national treasure in this poetic tribute to bill bissett. bissett has been a landmark on the Canadian literary scene since the 1960s, renowned as much for his fascinating life as for his poetics. He is best known for his anti-conventional poetry, which makes use of phonetic spelling and visual elements, and for his performances of concrete sound, chanting, and dancing during poetry readings. bissett is also the founder of blewointment press (now Nightwood Editions).”

Canada
http://www.nightwoodeditions.com/title/RadiantDanseUvBeing

“Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida, also winner of the Governor General’s and Pat Lowther Memorial Awards and shortlisted for the Trillium Book Prize, is Roo Borson’s tenth book of poems, which include Water memory (1996) and Night Walk: Selected Poems (1994), a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. In addition to her prize winning essays, Borson’s poetry has won many awards including the CBC Prize for Poetry in 1982 and 1989, and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Awards in 1990 and 1993, the Governor General’s Award in 1984 as well as 1994, and in collaboration with Kim Maltman and Andy Patton as PAIN NOT BREAD, won the Long Poem Prize in the Malahat Review in 1993.”

Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2005.php?t=1

“Sylvia Legris is originally from Winnipeg and now lives in Saskatoon. Nerve Squall is her third book of poetry, and in addition to the Griffin Poetry Prize, it has also garnered the 2006 Pat Lowther Memorial Award and is nominated for a Saskatchewan Book Award. Her poems have been published in many journals, including Border Crossings, Room of One’s Own, and CV2. Her previous books are iridium seeds and circuitry of veins….”

Saskatoon,  Saskatchewan,  Canada
http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2006.php?t=2

“Here we hope you’ll find multiple contexts for an enhanced understanding of Earle Birney and his works. We are privileged to display a digital collection of reviews and articles courtesy of the National Library of Canada. In addition, visitors to the site will find a wonderful collection of photographs, sound files, and even typescript drafts of Birney’s ‘makings.’” Maintained by a team at Thompson Rivers University (formerly the University College of the Cariboo) in Kamloops, BC.

Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://www.cariboo.bc.ca/ae/e_birney/home.htm

“internashunul postering campayne” of bill bissett’s “inkorrect thots”

International
http://inkorrectthots.blogspot.com/

“The Margaret Atwood Society [is] an international association of scholars, teachers and students who share an interest in Atwood’s work. The main goal of the Society is to promote scholarly exchange of the writer’s work by providing opportunities for scholars to exchange information.”

International
http://www.mscd.edu/~atwoodso/

“Everything you wanted to know about Robert Burns, Scotland’s national bard (and lots more besides).”

U.K. (Scotland)
http://www.robertburns.org/

Ian Hamilton Finlay 28 October 1925 - 27 March 2006 “The art of Ian Hamilton Finlay is unusual for encompassing a variety of different media and discourses. Poetry, philosophy, history, gardening and landscape design are among the genres of expression through which his work moves, and his activities have assumed concrete form in cards, books, prints, inscribed stone or wood sculptures, room installations and fully realised garden environments.”—Prudence Carlson

In the January 2007 edition of the Scotland-Canada Poetry Exchange, Stephen Scobie introduces the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay.

U.K. (Scotland)
http://www.ianhamiltonfinlay.com/

“Readings of poetry by the scottish poet Robbie Burns including: Tam O shanter, The Twa Dogs, Epistle to John Rankine, The Inventory, The Ordination, To the noble Duke of Athole, To the Same ( John Lapraik), Tribute by Longfellow, Scotch Drink, Verses on the destruction of the woods near Drumlanrig, Address of Beelzebub, Halloween, Libertie - A Vision, A Dream, The Holy Fair, Tam O Shanter, The Auld Farmer’s New-Year morning.”

U.K. (Scotland)
http://robertburns.farraige.com/

The official site for the Robert Burns World Federation and “the definitive educational internet site for beginners and experts alike, and a growing interactive resource on all matters relating to the life and times of Robert Burns.”

U.K. (Scotland)
http://www.worldburnsclub.com/

The annual Robert Frost Poetry festival is held in “Key West, Florida on the grounds of the Heritage House Museum, the Robert Frost Cottage and select Key West venues.”

“The festival features poetry and haiku workshops, poetry and haiku readings, an art & film event and an international poetry and haiku contest.”

Date: Next festival: April 9 - 13, 2008
Key West, Florida,  United States
http://www.robertfrostpoetryfestival.com/