Ha, also rob's ideas, which may lead you to others. There are at least a couple of critical books (& loads of articles) on the long poem in Canada, out there, looking at different aspects. Book-length poems. Continuing poems. Robert Kroetsch's highly important, & delightful, 'For Play and Entrance' was an early one.
Smaro Kamboureli's On the Edge of Genre: The Contemporary Canadian Long Poem (UofTPress 1991); Manina Jones's That Art of Difference: 'Documentary-Collage' and English-Canadian Writing (UofTPress 1993) are 2 early ones. I dont have others at hand, but many of the collections in NeWest Press's Thw Writer-as-Critic series, have essays on long poems (you can check them out at the NBeWest website).
Whether you can get hold of them in Oz is another question, but I would bet a few university libraries have them (where there's a Canadian Studies component).
Long poems can be serials, or series of short poems, of course.
And there seem to be quite a few in Britain, of which my favourite remains Briggflats.
Doug
On 2012-05-19, at 2:19 AM, Chris Jones wrote:
> On 19/05/12 17:56, Chris Jones wrote:
>> I am thinking of trying to find what Canada may have to say.
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> and I what did I find?
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> Douglas Barbour, Fragmenting Body
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> from:
> http://robmclennan.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/penultimate-long-poem-anthology-edited.html
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> Friday, October 21, 2011
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> The Penultimate Long Poem Anthology, edited by rob mclennan
> (unpublished)
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