the search for the Oxford Poetry Professor, now official (with Scotland's Geoffrey Hill leading the field, deservedly so), cannot hold a candle to the true-blue news that stays news; that is, Robin Robertson's latest work, The Wrecking Light, published this week in the U.K., simply astonishes. Twice, I've read it; twice, I've gone places and found traces I'd never believed I'd witness in (and out of) this world we word-workers consider the flight of poetryfrom Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: Robin Robertson's "Wonderland"
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Wow, indeedly. We at IOW believe Shane Koyczan deserves a Standing O.
As the Yellowknife-born and Penticton, BC-raised slam poet so succinctly put it when asked about his explosive performance at the opening ceremonies celebrating Vancouver's Olympic Games last Friday night, "I was like, 'You either go for it . . . or jump.'"
He went for it, dishing up a feast of "a love poem" originally commissioned by the Canadian Tourism Commission in 2007.
from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: What's news?
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