International Sites

Canadian sites.

• First stop: The Porcupine's Quill Links Page is an unparalleled compendium of resources for writers.

• The Canadian Literature Archive, a valuable research tool from the University of Manitoba.

• Wordwrights Canada, operated by League member Susan Ioannou, provides publications and services for aspiring writers, including a guide to student and chapbook writing competitions.

• League member Neile Graham has written a valuable guide on how to market poetry.

• The League of Canadian Poets has several members who will read and evaluate poetry manuscripts -- for a fee.

• The Nova Scotia Federation of Writers also lists a number of manuscript evaluation services.

• The National Library of Canada maintains a similar series of links, which also contains many author biographies and some literary magazines.

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• First stop: PilotSearch.Com claims to be the world's largest literary search engine on the net.

• The Contemporary American Poetry Archive (which includes some Canadian books, too!), a site for electronic copies of out-of-print poetry books, is maintained here.

• The National Book Foundation.

• The Autorenfotoarchiv in Berlin, offers a huge collection of author portraits (over 1500!).

• Zuzu's Petals offers over 10,000 organized literary links, many of them practical. A good research site for locating publishers, grants, and resources of any literary kind. Even we here at the League of Canadian Poets don't have that many!

• Lit Line offers a similar service. Maybe they have something that Zuzu and friends do not? Maybe they do. Indeed.

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• The Poetry: Classic site at About.com is a useful resource for students. Its purpose is to offer poems (not new poems, necessarily, but the classics), poet biographies, critical analyses and reviews, and is in the process of gathering as many public domain poems as possible. It also offers suggestions for writing papers on poems.

• This site can help you find a publisher to approach for your next book.

• The Contemporary Poetry Review is devoted exclusively to the criticism of poetry, and features some of finest reviewers in the English language, including James Rother, Brian Henry (editor of Verse), and Justin Quinn (editor of Metre). It also contains interviews with distinguished critics and poets, lists of newly published collections, and an exclusive chatroom.

• The Poetry Kit has collected and archived interviews with U.K. poets. The page also includes links to other interviews with poets online.

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