In Pith & Wry: Canadian Poetry highly respected poet and editor Susan McMaster brings together 40 active, well-established Canadian poets from coast to coast who have a stake in their communities and country, and whose direct, human voices call their fellow citizens into a broadened horizon.
The contributors include Sylvia Adams, Cameron Anstee, Margaret Atwood, Ronnie R. Brown, Jan Conn, Lorna Crozier, Kat Eichhorn, Marty Gervais, Katia Grubisic, Maureen Scott Harris, Penn Kemp, Ben Ladouceur, John B. Lee, Alice Major, Blaine Marchand, Dave Margoshes, Don McKay, Susan McMaster, Colin Morton, Mary Ann Mulhern, Roger Nash, Marilyn Gear Pilling, Claudia Coutu Radmore, Monty Reid, Grant D. Savage, Rachael Simpson, Carolyn Smart, Betsy Struthers.
They have won the Acorn-Plantos People's Poetry Award, CBC Literary Award, Canadian Jewish Book Award, Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Governor General's Award, Griffin Poetry Prize, Harbourfront Festival Prize, Lampman-Scott Poetry Award, Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Trillium Book Award for Poetry.
The contributors hail from St. John's, Bay of Fundy, Montreal, Gatineau, Luskville, Waltham, Ottawa, Peterborough, Toronto, Hamilton, Brantford, Sydenham, London, Windsor, Port Elgin, Georgian Bay, Parry Sound, Sudbury, Regina, Calgary, Rocky Mountain House, Burnaby, Victoria, Prince Rupert.