One of the projects Tightrope is most excited about is The Best Canadian Poetry in English, English Edition. This annual anthology will take the pulse of Canadian poetry on a yearly basis. Each year the anthology will be guest edited by a prominent Canadian poet. This year’s Guest Editor is Stephanie Bolster. Our Advisory Editor on the project is Molly Peacock. As Advisory Editor she will provide the continuity from year to year.

We will make the selection of poems from all the Canadian literary journals of the previous year. The Guest Editor, with the advice of the Advisory Editor, will choose a preliminary long list of 100 poems. From this list the editor will choose a final selection of 50 poems for inclusion in the anthology.

Because we wish to take the measure of Canadian poetry every year, we hope to widen the scope and to represent as many magazines as possible. To this end, the long list of poems will be presented in the back of the book, with each poet’s name, each poem’s title, and where the poem appeared.

Tightrope believes this anthology will be a meaningful contribution to the ongoing literary dialogue in Canada as well as a way to bring the best of Canadian poetry to the attention of the reading public in both Canada and the world.