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Canadian Alternative Poetry Online

Here are some links to the work of Canadian alternative poets available on the web.
(click on the highlighted names to jump to the poems)

Sandra Alland - reading on Test Reading Series
Sandra Alland - 2 poems on ars poetica

Kemeny Babineau - 3 poems on Terrain

Elizabeth Bachinsky - 5 poems on Drunken Boat Canadian Strange
Elizabeth Bachinsky - reading at Zeke's Gallery, Montreal, May 18, 2006, as part of the Vancouver Invasion reading series on Google videos.
Elizabeth Bachinsky - 4 poems on nthposition

Douglas Barbour - 9 poems on The East Village Poetry Web
Doublas Barbour - 3 poems on Lynx
Douglas Barbour - 3 poems on Jacket Magazine

Gary Barwin - 4 poems on ars poetica
Gary Barwin - visual/concrete poetry on Other Clutter
Gary Barwin - Outside the Hat on Coach House Books Online Books
Gary Barwin - Raising Eyebrows on Coach House Books Online Books

Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts - from Dawn of a Dead Wood Dawn on Shampoo
Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts - Chora Sea II from The Obvious Flap on Coconut
Gary Barwin & Gregory Betts - Scream in the Square video on YouTube

Gregory Betts - the language of light verse on ars poetica
Gregory Betts - Eaton's Effluviad on Torontoist
Gregory Betts - In the Glare and Rumpled Sweater on The 2River View
Gregory Betts - 4 poems in Stride Magazine

bill bisset - 9 poems on the University of Toronto Library Canadian Poets
bill bisset - 3 poems on Qwerty
bill bisset - xcuse me on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week
bill bisset - deth interrupts th dansing on Vallum
bill bisset - 3 poems on nthposition

bill bisset & pete dako - 4 spoken word/music tracks on myspace

derek beaulieu - visual/concrete poems on Drunken Boat Canadian Strange
derek beaulieu - 3 poems on lexiconjury
derek beaulieu - 10 visual/concrete poems on minimalist concrete poetry
derek beaulieu - a parting word turned away and for rr and KMc on Deluxe Rubber Chicken
derek beaulieu - visual/concrete poems on Nocturno
derek beaulieu - Stanzas. No. 38. on The Sackner Archive of Visual and Concrete Poetry
derek beaulieu - a small love poem on Coach House Books Digital Ephemera

Robin Blaser - 8 poems on The East Village Poetry Web
Robin Blaser - reading on PennSound
Robin Blaser - 2 poems on Woodland Pattern Book Center
Robin Blaser - Epitaphics on The Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week

Christian Bök - reading at PennSound.
Christian Bök - vowels on New American Writing
Christian Bök - eunonia, chapter e on ubuWeb
Christian Bök - Sapphire on EPC
Christian Bök - Ubu (the first) on Cabaret Vert Magazine
Christian Bök - eunonia (text and flash versions) on Coach House Books Online Books
Christian Bök - Amythyst on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week

David f. Bradley - italian sandpaper on lexiconjury

Di Brandt - my mother found herself on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week
Di Brandt - 3 poems on the Di Brandt website
Di Brandt - from Zone: le Détroit (text and audio clip) on the Griffin Poetry Prize (scroll down past the bio)

David Bromige - 9 poems on The East Village Poetry Web
David Bromige - Once... on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week
David Bromige - reading on Pennsound
David Bromige - 2 poems on Chicago Review (pdf)
David Bromige - from A Cast of Tens on avecbooks
David Bromige & Richard Denner - The Petrarch Project, Cantos 34-37 on Big Bridge
David Bromige - 10 poems on Jacket Magazine

Clint Burnham - 2 poems on The East Village Poetry Web
Clint Burnham - three sonnets on Jacket Magazine

Stephen Cain - Route 3: Exit Sodom on Test Reading Series
Stephen Cain - reading at Test Reading Series May 24, 2006
Stephen Cain - Hydra on lexiconjury
Stephen Cain - Canada Dry on ars poetica
Stephen Cain - 5 poems on Jacket
Stephen Cain - dyslexicon on Coach House Books Online Books

Louis Cabri - 2 poems on The East Village Poetry Web
Louis Cabri - The Mood Embosser on Coach House Books Online Books
Louis Cabri - reading on Pennsound

Paul Chamberland - 90 décembre 80 on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week (en français)
Paul Chamberland - Les Nuits armées on Nox Oculis (en français)
Paul Chamberland - 4 poems on Je me souviens...(en français)

Margaret Christakos - The Hoity Toity Supplements on Test Reading Series
Margaret Christakos - reading at Test Reading Series April 26, 2006
Margaret Christakos - Favourites on Lexiconjury
Margaret Christakos - Not Egypt on Coach House Books Online Books
Margaret Christakos - Way Out on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week
Margaret Christakos - Two chance operations 16-17 Feb 2006 on nthposition

Jason Christie - Ideo Radio Poem on Test Reading Series
Jason Christie - reading at Test Reading Series September 23, 2006
Jason Christie - e visceral on lexiconjury
Jason Christie - from i-Robot on Edge

Norma Cole - from Spinoza In Her Youth on The East Village Poetry Web
Norma Cole - Speech Production: Themes and Variations on Shampoo
Norma Cole - Mace Hill Remap e-book on duration press

Victor Coleman - 3 poems on The East Village Poetry Web
Victor Coleman - Letter Drop on Coach House Books Online Books
Victor Coleman - SP(IT)ORTs HURTS on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week
Victor Coleman - Light Verse e-book on One Zero Zero Virtual Library

Stephen Collis - State of Nature on Stylus Poetry Journal

Kevin Connelly - Cold Kissed in Colchis on Shampoo

Lynn Crosbie - i. Gabriel on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week
Lynn Crosbie - 6 poems on the University of Toronto Library
Lynn Crosbie - Liar on MiPoesias Magazine

David Cull - 4 poems on The East Village Poetry Web

Frank Davey - Multiple Choice Games for Hiroshima Day on The East Village Poetry Web
Frank Davey - Eleven poems at Frank Davey Poems Online
Frank Davey - Six poems on Paradigme

Jeff Derksen - Central [Canada] Party House on The East Village Poetry Web

Christopher Dewdney - Halcyon July in Algoma on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week

Raôul Duguay - Pyramide de mots on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week (en français)

Paul Dutton - reading on ubuWeb.
Paul Dutton - so'nets on Kaldron
Paul Dutton - Content on lexiconjury
Paul Dutton - Aurealities on Coach House Books Online Books
Paul Dutton - 2 poems on ars poetica

Chris Fickling - Dali's Persistance on lexiconjury

Jon Paul Fiorentino - 4 poems on Drunken Boat Canadian Strange
Jon Paul Fiorentino - What's the Worst That Could Happen, Courtney? on Test Reading Series
Jon Paul Fiorentino - Mission Street Song on lexiconjury
Jon Paul Fiorentino - 3 poems on ::stonestone::

The Four Horsemen - on PennSound
Four Horsemen - Live in the West on ubuWeb from February, 1974
The Four Horsemen - clip from Ron Mann's documentary, Poetry in Motion (1981) on YouTube
(Learn more about Ron Mann's documentary, Poetry in Motion, on The Internet Movie Database)
The Four Horsemen - 7 scores from The Prose Tattoo; Selected Performance Scores of The Four Horsemen on Kaldron

Maxine Gadd - 6 poems on The East Village Poetry Web

Michel Gay - Un vague sentiment on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week (en français)

Gerry Gilbert - 6 Poems with Typography, Calligraphy & Images on The East Village Poetry Web

Julian Jason Haladyn - Archer and Visiting the Auberge du Grand Duc on silent actor
Julian Jason Haladyn - What to do with four giant cacti on nthposition

Joelle Hann - 5 poems on Drunken Boat Canadian Strange
Joelle Hann - Small Gestures on The Courtland Review

Kevin Hehir - sound poems at UbuWeb
Kevin Hehir - Truth dub 1 (Sound Poem) on BlazeVOX2k3

Gilles Hénault - Enfance on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week

Robert Hogg - Roy Rogers, a jazz elegy on The East Village Poetry Web
Robert Hogg - Early Morning, January on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week

Ken Howe - 3 poems on Drunken Boat Canadian Strange

Ray Hsu - Excerpts from “Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon” (Working Title) on Drunken Boat Canadian Strange
Ray Hsu - reading at the Atwater Library Poetry Project, December 15, 2006.
Ray Hsu - Benjamin: Nine Epilogues on Exile
Ray Hsu - 2 poems on nthpostion

Jesse Huisken - Seven Pages from Vacation on Test Reading Series
Jesse Huisken - Strife on Multiple Surfaces in a Dream on lexiconjury

Reg Johanson - reading on Test Reading Series

Lionel Kearns - For Gerri on The East Village Poetry Web

Jake Kennedy - Please talk eerily amongst yourselves on nthposition

Roy Kiyooka - from Pear Tree Poems on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week

Robert Kroetsch - Four Questions for George Bowering on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week

Mark Laliberte - concrete poem on Vallum

Patricia Lamontange - untitled / sans titre on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week (en français)

Gatien Lapointe - untitled / sans titre on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week (en français)
Gatien Lapointe - 11 poems on Je me souviens...(en français)

Billy Little - 6 poems on The East Village Poetry Web

Jeanette Lynes - 4 poems on Drunken Boat Canadian Strange
Jeanette Lynes - 3 poems on It's Still Winter

Karen Mac Cormac - At Issue VIII on The East Village Poetry Web
Karen Mac Cormac - At Issue IX on lexiconjury
Karen Mac Cormac - Four in Two in Two on Riding the Meridian
Karen Mac Cormac - At Issue on Coach House Books Online Books

Donato Mancini - Ligatures on Eclipse
Donato Mancini - reading at Test Reading Series August 24 2006
Donato Mancini - concrete poem on Vallum

Daphne Marlatt - (Dis)spelling on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week
Daphne Marlatt - via negativa on Stylus Poetry Journal

Émile Martel - Serpent on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week (en français)

Steve McCaffery - 2 poems on The East Village Poetry Web
Steve McCaffery - at PennSound
Steve McCaffery - at EPC's LINEbreak
Steve McCaffery - Carnival on Coach House Books Online Books

Don McKay - Meditation on Blue on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week

Barry McKinnon - from Arrhythmia on The East Village Poetry Web
Barry McKinnon - The Centre on It's Still Winter (note: scroll down and click on the next button at the bottom of each page to proceed to the next section)
Barry McKinnon - Real estate on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week

rob mclennan - 5 poems on Drunken Boat Canadian Strange
rob mclennan - reading at the Atwater Library Poetry Project, February 16, 2006.
rob mclennan - reading from The Ottawa City Project on Authors Aloud, the Voices of Canadian Literature.
rob mclennan - as if lost in an ancient maze - 3 poems - from paisley - C.D. Wright's lost road - (composed in the midst of action) on Shampoo
rob mclennan - 6 poems and from a day book on ::stonestone::
rob mclennan - 2 poems on It's Still Winter
rob mclennan - 5 poems and 4 poems on Jacket
rob mclennan - zero on The Parliamentary Poet Laureate's Poem of the Week
rob mclennan - approximately this on nthposition
rob mclennan - 2 poems and 1 poem on Stylus Poetry Journal

Roy Miki - material recovery two on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week

Jay MillAr - Lack Lyric ii at Test Reading Series
Jay MillAr - reading at Test Reading Series March 29 2006
Jay MillAr - 3 poems from the small blue on lexiconjury
Jay MillAr - North Vancouver: An Ode on ::stonestone::

Erin Moure - from Calor on The East Village Poetry Web
Erin Moure - 2 poems on Drunken Boat Canadian Strange
Erin Mouré - reading at the Atwater Library Poetry Project, March 30, 2006.
Erin Mouré - document29 (French thinking) on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week
Erin Mouré - Georgette on Vallum Contemporary Poetry
Erin Mouré - Exposure to freezing on nthposition
Erin Mouré - from O Codoiro (The Fall) on Jacket

Lillian Necakov - collages from Polaroids on The East Village Poetry Web
Lillian Necakov - Polaroids on Coach House Books Online Books
Lillian Necakov - 5 poems on Exile

bpNichol - from Translating Translating Apollinaire: A Preliminary Report on Kaldron
bpNichol - 12 poems from Art Facts: a book of contexts on Kaldron
bpNichol - Sharpfax copier sequence on Kaldron
bpNichol - Absolute Statement on Coach House Books Digital Ephemera
bpNichol - Aleph Unit on Coach House Books Online Books
bpNichol - The Martyology on Coach House Books Online Books
bpNichol - Transformational Unit on Coach House Books Digital Ephemera
bpNichol - Unit of Four on Coach House Books Digital Ephermera

Catherine Paquette - The things we live for on Shampoo
Catherine Paquette - Sucker I, II, III on Glitterpony
Catherine Paquette - from see you in hell - suckers, part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 on No Tell Motel

Alessandro Porco - 3 poems on nthposition

Meredith Quartermain - 8 poems on The East Village Poetry Web
Meredith Quartermain - 2 poems on Stylus Poetry Journal

Sina Queyras - Moments Ripe As Cherries on ars poetica
Sina Queyras - 3 poems on nthposition
Sina Queyras - Kernal on nthposition

a.rawlings - sexology on lexiconjury

Rob Read -"Daily Treated Spam, Selections from September 1st to October 11th, 2006" on Test Reading Series
Rob Read - Maps & Geography of Television on lexiconjury
Rob Read - draft of a soundpoem on lexiconjury

Jamie Reid - 3 poems on The East Village Poetry Web

Harold Rhenisch - 8 poems on The East Village Poetry Web
Harold Rhenisch - 3 poems on nthposition

Lisa Robertson - The Device on The East Village Poetry Web
Lisa Robertson - from The Men on Test Reading Series
Lisa Robertson - For Soft Architects on Narrativity
Lisa Robertson - Wooden Houses on Jacket

Renee Rodin - 3 poems on The East Village Poetry Web

Stan Rogal - Lines of Embarkation on Coach House Books Online Books
Stan Rogal - 2 poems on nthposition

Joe Rosenblatt - The Muse in Early February on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week

Stuart Ross - reading on Test Reading Series
Stuart Ross - The Sun on lexiconjury

Trish Salah - 4 poems on Drunken Boat Canadian Strange
Trish Salah - 3 poems on Blissful Times

Jordan Scott - 6 poems on Drunken Boat Canadian Strange
Jordan Scott - reading on Test Reading Series

George Stanley - 6 poems on The East Village Poetry Web
George Stanley - Veracruz on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week

Todd Swift - 3 poems on Drunken Boat Canadian Strange
Todd Swift - The Death of Charles Bronson on Shampoo
Todd Swift - Homage to Charlotte Rampling on New American Writing
Todd Swift - 3 poems on nthposition
Todd Swift - 2 poems and 4 poems on Jacket Magazine

Souvankham Thammavongsa - This Dragonfly on Test Reading Series
Souvankham Thammavongsa - reading at Test Reading Series

France Théoret - De Bloody Mary on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week (en français)

Lola Lemire Tostevin - a different tongue... on the Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week

David UU - poems from Chopped Liver on Kaldron

Steve Venright - Distended Aphorisms on lexiconjury
Steve Venright - Spiral Agitator on Coach House Books Online Books

Fred Wah - eleven poems on The East Village Poetry Web
Fred Wah - Breathin' My Name with a Sigh ebook on One Zero Zero Virtual Library
Fred Wah - 2 poems on Stylus Poetry Journal

Darren Wershler-Henry - 2 poems on The East Village Poetry Web
Darren Wershler-Henry - [2 Images & "appogiaturae"] on The East Village Poetry Web
Darren Wershler-Henry - Translating Apollinaire 106 on Coach House Books Digital Ephemera

Ryan Whyte - 2 poems on The East Village Poetry Web

Lissa Wolsak - from Pen Chants on The East Village Poetry Web

Rita Wong - 2 poems on Stylus Poetry Journal

Rachel Zolf - excerpts from Human Resources on Drunken Boat Canadian Strange
Rachel Zolf - HR Bookwork on Other Clutter