Posted on 22/04/06
A Canadian Auden for the under-40s?
Airstream Land YachtBy Ken BabstockAnansi, 110 pages, $18.95Poetry moves slowly no longer; the great ice sheets of reputation, even of canon, now slip forward with great speed. Anthology after anthology signals the "construction" of a new generation of leading Canadian poets. As Auden was to the English 1930s, so too is Ken Babstock to the Canadian 2000s -- the key figure of the under-40s generation, around which other younger poets circle or swoon, hoping to be more MacNeice than Spender.
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