Canada needs a new national poet laureate. Yawn. So who doesn’t? These days, it seems like every city, county, province, state, and regional confederation of boroughs has its own poet tasked with… well, what exactly are poet laureates supposed to do, anyway? The requirement that an official poet spend her/his time composing odes to the glory/beauty/strength of whatever geographical area is providing the employment are long gone, but the old restrictions have never really been replaced with new ones. Consequently, Canada’s next poet laureate can more or less write her/his own rule book – that is, if anyone wants the job.