Best Canadian Poetry 2021

Best Canadian Poetry 2021 is a collection of fifty poems selected by guest editor Souvankham Thammavongsa from work published by Canadian poets in magazines and journals in 2020. The anthology offers a diverse range of voices, from new work by Canadian icons to thrilling emerging talents, and includes poems that made Thammavongsa laugh out loud.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 168 pages
Publication date: 13 January 2022
Publisher: Biblioasis

“This is a book,” writes guest editor Souvankham Thammavongsa,“about what I saw and read and loved, and want you to see and read and love.” Selected from work published by Canadian poets in magazines and journals in 2020, Best Canadian Poetry 2021 gathers the poems Thammavongsa loved most over a year's worth of reading, and draws together voices that “got in and out quickly, that said unusual things, that were clear, spare, and plain, that made [her] laugh out loud … the voices that barely ever survive to make it onto the page.” From new work by Canadian icons to thrilling emerging talents, this year's anthology offers fifty poems for you to fall in love with as well.

Featuring:

• Margaret Atwood


• Ken Babstock


• Manahil Bandukwala


• Courtney Bates-Hardy


• Roxanna Bennett


• Ronna Bloom


• Louise Carson


• Kate Cayley


• Kitty Cheung


• Dani Couture


• Kayla Czaga


• Šari Dale Unnati


• Desai Tina Do


• Andrew DuBois


• Paola Ferrante


• Beth Goobie


• Nina Philomena


• Honorat Liz Howard


• Maureen Hynes


• George K Ilsley


• Eve Joseph


• Ian Keteku


• Judith Krause


• M Travis Lane


• Mary Dean Lee


• Canisia Lubrin


• Randy Lundy


• David Ly


• Yohani Mendis


• Pamela Mosher


• Susan Musgrave


• Téa Mutonji


• Barbara Nickel


• Ottavia Paluch


• Kirsten Pendreigh


• Emily Pohl-Weary


• David Romanda


• Matthew Rooney


• Zoe Imani Sharpe


• Sue Sinclair


• John Steffler


• Sarah Yi-Mei Tsiang


• Arielle Twist


• David Ezra Wang


• Phoebe Wang


• Hayden Ward


• Elana Wolff


• Eugenia Zuroski


• Jan Zwicky

Weight: 144g
Dimension: 133 x 207 x 13 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781771964395