This book is about poetry and the poetic in the cultures and literatures of Britain, Canada and the United States. Close reading is the primary method. The figures discussed in the body of the book were born from 1911 to the post-war years after 1945. The volume proceeds from Marshall McLuhan as a poet though Douglas LePan, Ted Hughes, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, Tom King, Forrest Gander to Hannah Lowe, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin, Fred Wah (interpoetics, poetry, Culture in Chinese Diasporic Poetry), Louis Riel, Pauline Johnson, Naomi McIlwraith (Indigenous and Metis Poetry), Gaspar Perez de Villagra, Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Joan Kane, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin, Forrest Gander (the multiple makings of poetry of North America). Here is a poetry of the north Atlantic world, a transatlantic poetics then and now. The book reads poetry and the poetic in terms of media, aesthetics, drama, criticism, music, interpoetics, diaspora, culture, diversity, African, Asian and Indigenous poets.