News at Eleven: "I don't get invited to poetry festivals

in Canada, but I do in the U.K.," she [Suzanne Steele] says. "One time I even had an angry Canadian poet get right in my face and say, 'Why the fuck are you writing about these guys?'" Over the course of her embed, she's learned that Canadian troops suffer the same reprimands: being shouted down in bars, insulted in conversation, misunderstood by family.

from The Globe and Mail: Canada's first war poet armed with a pen

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