In fine form

"The past few years have seen a quiet revolution in Canadian poetry. Poets experimenting with "form" - with sonnets and ghazals, triolets and ballads, epigrams and blues - have been slipping these verses into their books alongside free verse. But dig deeper and it turns out that Canadian poets have a history of writing in form - from famous early practitioners such as Charles G. D. Roberts, Robert Service and Bliss Carman to recent Griffin Prize winner Ann Simpson and bestseller Christian Bok. Not to speak of Margaret Atwood, Irving Layton, Leonard Cohen, Alden Nowlan, George Elliott Clarke,…