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From: Kent Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Oct 27, 2016 8:58 PM
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Subject: Re: a question List racism

George Bowering?

Can anyone provide a list of the Kootenay School?

Tony, this is a surprisingly dismissive post from someone like you!

Kent

>>> Jamie McKendrick <[log in to unmask]> 10/27/16 7:39 PM >>>

Tony, you're leaving out Anne Carson and the splendid Karen Solie. Margaret Atwood and Michael Ondaatje, though more famous for their prose, are still known over here as poets.
Jamie

On 28 Oct 2016, at 00:44, Tony Frazer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Definitely not, Kent.

British OUGHT to mean English, Welsh and Scottish only; Northern Irish being added sometimes as in British-and-Irish, and sometimes lumped in with the Republic. Ex-colonies / dominions that happen to be in the Commonwealth and have the British monarch as Head of State are not included. 

As for Canada, it’s one of the great mysteries. Almost no-one knows anything about Canadian poets, although a couple do slip through the net now and again, but only rarely if they’re still Canada-based. Bök and Mouré would be the only two of the latter variety that come to mind.

BUT, there again, when poets from those lands move over here they seem to become British for classification purposes, or hyphenated British. I should add that I’ve no problem at all with that. Seems right to me.

Tony

On 28 Oct 2016, at 00:37, Kent Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

This is probably a naïve question, but so what.

When one says British poetry, does that also include Canada and whatever remaining lands that are yet legally "linked" to Britain?

I am asking because the poetry of these places never seems to be discussed on this List, most noticeably the poetry of non-Caucasian lands still connected to Britain.

Kent

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