my fourteenth annual ‘best of’ list of 2024 Canadian poetry books

, my annual list of the seemingly-arbitrary “worth repeating”

Once more, I offer my annual list of the seemingly-arbitrary “worth repeating” (given ‘best’ is such an inconclusive, imprecise designation), constructed from the list of Canadian poetry titles I’ve managed to review throughout the past year. See my fourteenth annual list over at the dusie blog here, along with links to all of my prior lists. Can you believe it has been fourteen years since dusie-maven Susana Gardner originally suggested various dusie-esque poets write up their own versions of same? Once again, I thank her both for the ongoing opportunity, and her original prompt.

This year’s list features a small handful of non-fiction/prose titles, and more than fifty full-length poetry titles by Fawn Parker, M.W. Jaeggle, Robert Coleman, Chimwemwe Undi, Khashayar “Kess” Mohammadi, Rob Manery, Allie Duff, Nicholas Bradley, Chuqiao Yang, Johanna Skibsrud, Matt Rader, Sarah Burgoyne & Vi Khi Nao, Kim Trainor, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Faith Arkorful, Bren Simmers, Hamish Ballantyne, Sylvia Legris, Shō Yamagushiku, Concetta Principe, Margaret Christakos, Dawn Macdonald, Simina Banu, Domenica Martinello, Tia McLennan, Jennifer May Newhook, Michael Goodfellow, Britta Badour, R Kolewe, Tonya Lailey, jaz papadopoulos, Ben Robinson (twice!), Clare Goulet, Chris Turnbull, Stuart Ross, Melanie Siebert, Keagan Hawthorne, AJ Dolman, Dale Martin Smith, Ashley-Elizabeth Best, Zoe Whittall, Kevin Stebner and Jaclyn Piudik. Go take a look! Such amazing work!