Bookninja is an irreverent daily newslog covering book news from around the world and a book review site that conducts “reverse omnibus” reviews (ie, reviews where two to four reviewers examine one book.)

Canada
http://www.bookninja.com/

“For forty-five years, Canadian Literature has explored and celebrated the best Canadian writers and writing. Each issue contains articles, poems and an extensive book reviews section.”

You can also find an extensive online archive of reviews from the print journal.

University of British Columbia, Vancouver,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://www.canlit.ca/

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/

Winnipeg,  Manitoba,  Canada
http://www.contemporaryverse2.ca/

“The Descant Blog is a handy tool and thoughtful read that’ll keep you in the know about national calls for submissions, launches and all things literary. It will also offer stunning original content you won’t find anywhere else, with knowledgeable and insightful literary and arts commentary by our team of bloggers: Zoe Whittall, Leah Sandals and Michelle Alfano.” (from Descant’s email announcement)

Also, check out Descant in its other incarnations.

Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.descant.ca/blog/

“Feature developed by Rowland Lorimer, Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing, Simon Fraser University…. This paper [HTML and PDF] was originally presented by Dr. Rowland Lorimer, of the Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing at Simon Fraser University, at the January 11, 2007 In Focus Speakers’ Series Workshop on Digital Transformations.”

Vancouver,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://www.culturescope.ca/ev_en.php?ID=12796_201&ID2=DO_TOPIC

“Founded in 1967, the year of Canada’s centennial, Mosaic is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to publishing the very best critical work in literature and theory. The journal brings insights from a wide variety of disciplines to bear on literary texts, cultural climates, topical issues, divergent art forms and modes of creative activity.” Subscribe to news by RSS feed or email.

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg,  Manitoba,  Canada
http://www.umanitoba.ca/publications/mosaic/

Online installation.

Canada
http://www.lot.at/mynewidea_com/

National Capital Letters, a web zine of the Ottawa Literary Heritage Society, provided “a venue for the recognition of Ottawa’s rich literary history and for the promotion of the current, vibrant scene. The documentation and assessment of the impact of literary happenings within the continuum of Ottawa’s literary activity remain fundamental to the purpose of the site. As such, we welcome submissions of articles, interviews, book reviews, literary manifestos, and any discourse on writers or literary events related to Ottawa.”

With the last of its issues ported in late 2004, the site appears dormant. Let’s hope for a revival.

Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://capletters.ncf.ca/

“This year’s theme is …. Poetry: Future (In)tense. What will poetry sound like in the future? What is a techno-poem? How will poetry fuse with other art forms like theatre or music? Instead of science-fiction, what would science-poetry sound like? …”

“Established in Canada in April 1999 by the League of Canadian Poets, National Poetry Month brings together schools, publishers, booksellers, literary organizations, libraries, and poets across the country to celebrate poetry and its vital place in Canada’s culture. Communities and businesses participate through readings, festivals, book displays, and other events.”

• Young Poets’ Week Initiatives: April 9-15th 2007
• Canada Poetry Fact Sheet
• Events Calendar

Date: April 2007: readings and events across Canada
Canada
http://www.poets.ca/linktext/npm.htm

“Northern Poetry Review is an online home for poems, reviews of poetry books, articles and interviews, with emphasis on the Canadian poetry scene. We chose the NPR acronym despite that lovely institution, National Public Radio. The editors of the site, Alex Boyd and Dani Couture, will publish sample poems by selected poets, and hope to encourage accessible, honest and diplomatic reviews of books published across the country written by reviewers across the country.”

Toronto,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.northernpoetryreview.com/

“Open Letter is a journal of critical and theoretical discussions of poetics and Canadian culture, written primarily by Canadian writers and artists.”

University of Western Ontario, London,  Ontario,  Canada
http://publish.uwo.ca/~fdavey/home.htm

Brian Campbell is a poet, translator and singer-songwriter. His “poetry has appeared in Grain, Prairie Fire, The New Quarterly, Dusie, Nth Position, and other reviews. His first book, Guatemala and Other Poems, was published in 1994 by Window Press, Toronto…. Undressing the Night, his translation of selected poems of the Nicaraguan/Canadian poet Francisco Santos, has recently been published by Editorial Lunes, Costa Rica.”

Posts from his poetry and poetics blog “Out of the Woodwork” have later incarnated as a critical essay in The Rock Salt Plum Review and as a book review in Pacific Rim Review of Books.

Montreal,  Quebec,  Canada
http://briancampbell.blogspot.com/

poetics.ca: is “an open site for dialogue on poetic theory and practice.” The editors write: “We value theory that is informed by practice, manifestos from the heart, in-depth conversation, and introductions to international writing. This site expresses not a single poetic, but the collective and frequently divergent poetics of its contributors and editors.”

Ottawa,  Ontario,  Canada
http://www.poetics.ca

“PoetryReviews.ca is dedicated to reviewing poetry books/chapbooks by Canadian authors.”

Also has forums for reading events as well as new release and award announcements.

Canada
http://poetryreviews.ca/

“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

“Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en littérature canadienne (SCL//ÉLC) is a biannual, bilingual journal devoted to the study of Canadian literature in English and French, and published at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. SCL//ÉLC is peer-reviewed, and welcomes submissions on all aspects of Canadian literature.”

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton,  New Brunswick,  Canada
http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/SCL/

“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/

“The Nashwaak Review publishes original poetry, short fiction, travel pieces, essays, articles and reviews. We also reproduce photography and paintings in black and white… [W]e have been an outlet for many promising young writers especially, but not exclusively, from Atlantic Canada. We like to claim that we are slightly different from most small Canadian magazines because of the nature of our travel section and because we accept essays and review books from disciplines other than literature.”

St. Thomas University, Fredericton,  New Brunswick,  Canada
http://www.stthomasu.ca/publications/nashwaak/index.htm

Taking up the connected challenges “first that reading is a social act and second that history falls like rain”, The Rain encourages discourse about books relevant to Vancouver, including many poetry books. Some articles are archived online.

Vancouver, Coast Salish Territory,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://www.rainreview.net/

Not exactly a poetry anthology, this unique collection edited by Will Garrett-Petts does feature writing by a number of Western Canadian poets. “In these twenty-five essays, poems, stories, and visual pieces, the authors of The Small Cities Book explore what it means to live in a smaller community during the era of global megacities…. Using the central British Columbia city of Kamloops as their example, the authors explore notions of social capital and community asset building, especially as they relate to the politics and aesthetics of self-representation, to notions of home and homelessness, to ideas of space and a local sense of place.”

Kamloops,  British Columbia,  Canada
http://newstarbooks.com/view-book.asp?id=19&c=Social%20Science

“the editors at ebr are particularly interested in critically-savvy, in-depth work that addresses the electronic future of fiction, poetry, criticism, theory, and the visual and performing arts.”

Check out the ebr weave on Electropoetics: “For many who are committed to working in electronic environments, an electronic ‘review’ might better be named a ‘retrospective,’ a mere scholarly commemoration of a phenomenon that is passing. There’s a technological subtext to the declining prestige of authors and literary canons. To bring that subtext to the surface will be part of ebr’s agenda.”—Editor’s Statement

There’s an interesting call for residencies in Riga, the capital of Latvia, to work on ebr’s Electronic Text and Textiles Project.

International
http://www.electronicbookreview.com

Edited and published by Karl Young. “This site includes a federation of genre, subject, and author home page, as well as smaller surveys and individual poems. It should give a rough sketch of some of the possibilities of late 20th - early 21st Century poetry from a number of different points of view and means of presentation. This is an anthology rather than a zine, and an anthology dedicated to alternative means of presentation as well as pluralistic forms and subjects. It includes over 60 complete books, new and reprinted…”

And on the topic of anthologies themselves, see Karl Young’s essay/manifesto: Toward an Ideal Anthology.

International
http://www.thing.net/~grist/l&d/lighthom.htm

“Musings on the Book, Literature, Poetry, Collecting, Media, Life and the Arts by a writer, broadcaster, bibliophile. AUDIO interviews, that will eventually be housed on their own site as part of a comprehensive plan to document ‘the book’ at the turn of the 21st Century, are also housed here.”

“Nigel Beale is the host/producer of The Biblio File, a radio program on CKCU 93.1 FM in Ottawa, Canada that airs weekly at 6am est Monday mornings, and can be heard live around the world at www.ckcufm.com. Audio versions of most interviews conducted for this program can be found on this site.”

bases in Ottawa, Canada and in London, England,  International
http://nigelbeale.com/

“Primitivism is the pursuit of ways of life running counter to the development of technology, its alienating antecedents, and the ensemble of changes wrought by both. This site is an exploration into primitivist theory, as well as various works that contribute to an understanding of the tendency.”

Related to poetry and technology, consider these letters/essays from the site: An Open Letter on Technology and Mediation (John Connor, John Filiss, Leif Fredrickson, Lawrence Jarach,
Ron Leighton, Jason McQuinn, John Moore, Jonathan Slyk) and Language: Origin and Meaning (by John Zerzan).

International
http://www.primitivism.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/

Great Scots. Poets introducing poets. The first virtual poetry exchange between Scotland and Canada. Co-hosted by Arc and the Scottish Poetry Library

International
http://www.arcpoetry.ca/greatscots/

“How2: Non-traditional directions in poetry and scholarship by women.”

Find more about HOW2 | Updates where you can post events | Calls for Submissions

Newtown, New South Wales,  Australia
http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/intro.htm

“Jacket is a quarterly literary magazine distributed to every town, city and country in the world via the Internet and given away free. Its publisher is the poet John Tranter. Here he muses on the revolutionary changes publishing has gone through in the last few years, the contradictions of the brave new electronic world, and why he decided to publish Jacket in this format.” Read John Tranter’s full essay, The Left Hand of Capitalism: about Jacket magazine.

Directories: Literary Links | Small or Literary Presses

Australia
http://jacketmagazine.com/00/home.shtml