\u27Why don\u27t you write about Canada\u27: Olive Senior\u27s poetry, everybody\u27s history, and the \u27condition of resonance\u27

In \u27Why don\u27t you write about Canada?\u27: Olive Senior\u27s Poetry, Everybody\u27s History and the \u27Condition of Resonance\u27, Anne Collett approaches the tensely nationalist query of her title from a very different perspective: seeing Canada as a present absence in Senior\u27s poetry about the Caribbean. This present absence is a means of reminding Canadians about the historical entanglements of Canada and the Caribbean. The resulting vision of Senior\u27s poetry is one that produces the nation in the world, and that reminds readers that so-called developed nations like Canada have been produced as such through the systematic exploitation of other nations