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'The League of Canadian Poets, a non-profit arts service organization, is the national association of professional publishing and performing poets in Canada. Its purpose is to enhance the status of poets and nurture a professional poetic community to facilitate the teaching of Canadian poetry at all levels of education and to develop the audience for poetry by encouraging publication, performance and recognition of Canadian poetry nationally and internationally.' The website offers practical advice, an events listing, and a "find a poet" service.
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Canadian Literature aims to foster a wider academic interest in the Canadian literary field, and publishes a wide range of material from Canadian and international scholars, writers, and poets. Each issue contains a variety of articles and an extensive book reviews section. As well, each issue includes selections of unpublished original poetry from Canadian contributors.
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The aim of the 19th century private collectors who began the Harris Collection was to acquire all American and Canadian poetry, plays, and music, and this is still the guiding principle of the Collection today. It is the largest collectio n of Canadian poetry and drama outside Canada, and is much larger than collections in most Canadian research libraries.
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Poets living in Montréal made the 1930s and 1940s one of the most exciting periods in the history of Canadian poetry in English. They published in little literary magazines, cheaper than books in a depressed economy, which encouraged rivalry and urged them to be aware of their roots and guard against excessive British or American influence. The leaders were Francis Reginald Scott (1899–1985) and A. J. M. Smith (1902–80), who were ... concerned with social issues and with literary criticism. Later they compiled The Blasted Pine: An Anthology of Satire, Invective, and Disrespectful Verse: Chiefly by Canadians (1957), which perhaps belies the cliché that Canadians are incapable of self-criticism. Another of these early Montréal poets was Abraham Moses Klein (1909–72). Steeped in Jewish tradition, he wrote lyrically and with deep understanding of Jews and other minorities.
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In 1926 the prolific E. J. Pratt broke away from the romantic tradition with The Titans ; his highly original and powerful epics place him among the foremost Canadian poets. Notable contemporary poets in the Pratt tradition include Kenneth Leslie, Earle Birney, W. W. E. Ross, Dorothy Livesay, and Anne Marriott. Other poets sharing the modern cosmopolitan tradition of the United States and W Europe are F. R. Scott, L. A. Mackay, A. M. Klein, P. K. Page, Irving Layton, Raymond Souster, James Reaney, Margaret Avison, Phyllis Webb, Leonard Cohen, and Margaret Atwood.
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