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 | | For a number of the 1960s poets on the west coast, their points of origin came twofold, from the publication in 1960 of Donald Allans The New American Poetry anthology and from the Vancouver Poetry Conference of 1963. |
 | | Through all of this, Canadian poetry, and writing in general, is becoming increasingly regional. |
 | | Canadian poetry has become far too big to get a handle on, with huge amounts of writing that have nothing to do with each other, all working from their own individual traditions, which, as they continue, extend further and further apart. |
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