''ditch,'' was an on-line literary periodical edited by the Canadian writer John C. Goodman with assistance from Scottish poet and artist James Mc Laughlin. The magazine was launched in August, 2007 and closed in January, 2014. The closure was due to technical problems - the website platform was not robust enough to handle the special formatting required for much of the poetry resulting in frequent crashes. ''ditch,'' published poetry only. Although the work of experimental poets from all over the world was accepted, the magazine was designed to promote Canadian experimental poetry which, at the time of the magazine's inception, had a very poor presence on the Internet. Most of the material was original to the magazine although ''ditch,'' has published a number of book excerpts. Each post was accompanied by a short biography and a picture of the writer. ''ditch,'' has published many of Canada's more prominent innovative poets such as Erín Moure,

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Camille Martin Camille Martin (born 1956) is a Canadian poet and collage artist. After residing in New Orleans for fourteen years, in 2005 she moved to Toronto following Hurricane Katrina. Biography Early life and education Camille Martin was born in El Dorado ...

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Lynn Crosbie Lynn Crosbie (born 7 August 1963) is a Canadian poet and novelist. She teaches at the University of Toronto. Life and career Crosbie was born in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario. She received her PhD in English from the Univer ...

Margaret Christakos Margaret Christakos (born 1962 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. Life Christakos was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario. She is a Canadian poet, fiction author, literary essayist and creative writing instructor. Sinc ...

, Elizabeth Bachinsky, and many others. ''ditch,'' has also published two online anthologies of Canadian innovative poetry which Ron Silliman called "the most ambitious books yet published in the Issuu format".

Paul Vermeersch Paul Joseph Vermeerschis a Canadian poet. His first collection, ''Burn'' (2000), was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award. His subsequent collections, ''The Fat Kid'' (2002), ''Between the Walls'' (2005), ''The Reinvention of the Human Hand'' ...

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'', Mark McCawley called ''ditch,'' one of the "online magazines presently pushing back against the literary status quo in Canada". Michael A. Chaney, Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the English Department, Dartmouth College listed ''ditch,'' as one of the Top Ten Literary Magazines to submit to.Top Ten Literary Magazines (December 2013)
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