What other poetry books have you been reading lately?
I started 2021 by reading chapbooks and journals published by Ottawa’s above/ground press, including Dennis Cooley’s I see I said, Gary Barwin and rob mclennan’s Some Leaves, Geoffrey Olsen’s The Deer Havens, Baron Rocco Fleetcrest-Seacobs’s Man Agar, and issues of Touch the Donkey and Guest. Most of the chapbooks and the poems in the journals were written by Canadian poets, so it’s been enlightening to expand my knowledge of contemporary Canadian poetry, which was pretty slight. I also recently read Indigo, by Ellen Bass, which amazed and impressed me on every page. I’m about to re-read Seamus Heaney’s 100 Poems along with my students.
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