Poetry
Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems (Chatto & Windus/Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Though American by birth, Bishop spent much of her youth in Nova Scotia. Many of her early poems feed off her Canadian childhood and her fascination with the country's rough landscapes. Leonard Cohen Poems: 1956-1968 (Cape/Penguin, o/p). A fine collection from a Sixties survivor who enjoyed high critical acclaim as a poet before emerging as a husky-throated crooner of bedsit ballads. See also his Beautiful Losers , one of the most aggressively experimental Canadian novels of the Sixties (Black Spring Press/Vintage). New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse (ed. Margaret Atwood; OUP). Canadian poets are increasingly finding a distinctive voice, but few except this collection's editor have made much impact outside their native country. Atwood's own sharp, witty examinations of nationality and gender are among the best in this anthology - more of her verse is published in the UK by Virago. Robert Service The Best of Robert Service (A&C Black/Running Press). Service's Victorian ballads of pioneer and gold-rush life have a certain charm and they capture the essence of the gold-rush period amongst which the Songs of a Sourdough collection of 1907 is perhaps the most memorable.
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