When we were cooking up ideas for The Next Chapter, one of us joked (or was it a joke?) that the show should include a news bulletin for and about poets. After all, business people and sports professionals get their own bulletins.

Unfortunately, the News for Poets has not yet seen the light of radio airplay. But the Canadian poetry scene is doing its best this week to be newsworthy, with Controversy and even Accusations about this year's Governor General's Award.

Most interesting accusation so far? Perhaps it's from Di Brandt, a G.G. juror, who blames the squabble on hurt feelings among poets stuck in the "current, neo-Dadaist fashion" of Toronto writers who lack "poetic clarity... and spiritual engagement". Fighting words, no? (Well, poetry correspondents can hope.)