There are more poets per capita in Canada than in any other country,including the countries that have not yet developed prose,
and there are more Canadian poets than Canadians who read them.Perhaps the Canada Council should offer grants for aspiring readers,
though grant applications themselves have inspired poetic expression.There may be no remedy. The muchness of poets in Canada
Is in the nature of the country, this land of hard-won anonymity,where praise is a leading export. Canadians venture into verse
as they venture into the bush, heavily laden, prepared for the worst--to be stung or bitten, or not to be heard from again.
