Great Regulars: Even more regrettably, no one attempts

an overview of the poet's working past, much less our collective literary past. The same is true of publishing; hence, the scarcity of Selected or Collected works. That an updated or revised Oxford or Penguin Book of Canadian Verse hasn't appeared in nearly 30 years says less about the economics of book publishing than it does about our obsession with the blink-and-you'll-miss-it present. Publicity replaces criticism while big cash prizes become Potemkin-Village substitutes for a healthily engaged culture. [--Fraser Sutherland]

from Judith Fitzgerald: The Globe and Mail: In Other Words: Fraser Sutherland: The glory of art

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