Yes, Doug, absolutely. Amazing to read Ern still.
As to female poets, I thought of Fay Zwicky ... What do you think??? Dorothy
Porter and Pam Brown would be two others I'd favour, but it is difficult to
distance myself enough to judge their worth alongside the oldies >g<
A Canadian list, Doug? C/mon, it wouldn't take you long ...
Andrew
On 23/01/2008, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> exactly, Roger, but I'm with Tranter & Mead in their Penguin
> anthology; it's certainly the best work the two poets ever did,
> unconsciously, of course....
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> Doug
> On 22-Jan-08, at 11:29 AM, Roger Day wrote:
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> > that's a whole can of worms there with the Ern!!!!
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> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
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> Nothing I'd read
> prepared me for a body this unfair.
>
> John Newlove
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