Mark Callanan: Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry

Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry: poetry Poet Phil Hall tests the boundaries of language, according to Globe and Mail. Fiction The Silent Wife: An extreme case of philanderer versus martyr Some readers may be surprised, on opening The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry , to find only 11 poets included. Newfoundland may be one of the smaller provinces; still, surely there are more than 11 poets writing there? But making up anthologies is always a tricky business, an attempt to walk a fine line between being underrepresentative and being over-inclusive. The editors, Mark Callanan and James Langer, surely have their reasons for choosing barely enough writers to make up a soccer team. More Related to this Story summer essay series Shelf awareness: Finding Canada in a forgotten corner of a Paris bookstore (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.