Best poetry debut: Paper Radio by Damian Rogers
Best poetry cover: Paper Radio by Damian Rogers
Best title given to a poetry book: The Hayflick Limit by Matthew Tierney
Best-designed collection: Track & Trace by Zach Wells
Best poetry collection I missed In 2008: Shades of Green by Brent Maclaine
Best critical essay: "Hide and Seek: Looking for the Real MacEwen" by Anita Lahey
Best poetry magazine: Arc
Best new literary mag: Riddle Fence
Best new poetry blog: Vox-Populism
Poetry blog I enjoyed despite myself: Lemon Hound
Best interview with a poet: Jason Guriel
Best headshot: Molly Peacock
Best reading tour coverage: Two on a Choo-Choo
Best literary controversy: Jason Guriel's “Going Negative”
Best book of American poetry I read this year: Yellowrocket by Todd Boss
Best book of British poetry I read this year: Third Wish Wasted by Roddy Lumsden
Best rediscovery: The Essential James Reaney by Brian Bartlett
Best poetry anthology about zoos: Penned: Animals in Zoos in Poems
Best poem about grass-eating quadrupeds: “The Golden Book of Bovinities,” from Figuring Ground
Best moment from one of the launches for This Way Out: Lisa Moore autograph
Most anticipated book of 2010 that doesn’t belong to my press: Bloom by Michael Lista
Most anticipated book of 2010 that does: Circus by Michael Harris
3 comments:
Carmine,
It's really nice to see Brent Maclaine's "Shades of Green" getting a plug. It's a collection that deserved and deserves more attention.
Happy New Year,
Pat Warner
Carmine,
are there 'chapbooks' in your collection, and more 'otherstream' publications (such as bpNichol and Acorn-Plantos Chapbook Award winners)?
Is it fair (judicious) to ignore them, if you have?
I respectfully submit for your consideration "Semaphore", the poetry blog I began in late May 2009 - http://semaphore1.blogspot.com
Not a full 2009 to be sure, but - in the span of 7 months, and 150 poems later - the site has had over 10,700 unique visitors. "Semaphore" also drew in 4,500 followers on Twitter, 1,700 on Facebook and more elsewhere.
I leave it to the individual reader to see whether the poems suit them, but here's a taste: the collection includes poems such as 'Letter to Neruda' http://bit.ly/s4letneruda - and 'Bereft' http://bit.ly/s4bereft.
If readership is any measure, "Semaphore" is, to my knowledge, one of the most successful pure poetry blogs of its kind, certainly in Canada, and possibly in North America.
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