News at Eleven: If a major Canadian literary event occurs,

and hardly a single Canadian is there to hear it, does it still make a sound?

This question crackled in the air last Wednesday night in Manchester, when 70-odd mostly British writers, readers, poets and poetry fanatics, gathered at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, around the corner from the warehouse where Coronation Street is filmed, to launch the most exhaustive and important anthology of Canadian poetry in two decades.

from The Globe and Mail: Rescuing Canadian poetry from international obscurity

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