Posted AT 3:04 AM EDT on 20/11/06
Poets aplenty, but who's reading the verse?
Proclamations of the death of poetry have grown more insistent and numerous over the last 25 years, but this hasn't stopped a lot of people -- too many, some would argue -- from continuing to write it and, occasionally, see it published.
In fact, tomorrow, at ceremonies in Toronto and Montreal, two poets, one English, the other French, will receive $15,000 each as the winners of the 2006 Governor-General's Award for excellence in poetry.
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