''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 Erín Moure (born 1955 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian poet and translator with 18 books of poetry, a coauthored book of poetry, a volume of essays, a book of articles on translation, a poetics, and two memoirs. She has translated or co-tran ...

, Nathalie Stephens, David UU (David W. Harris),

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, Judith Copithorne, derek beaulieu, Camille Martin, Natalie Zina Walschots, rob mclennan, a.rawlings,

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 Uni ...

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 Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman w ...

called "the most ambitious books yet published in the

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format".

Paul Vermeersch Paul Joseph Vermeersch (born 17 November 1973) is a Canadian poet from Ontario. Life and career Vermeersch was born in Mississauga, Ontario on 17 November 1973. After high school, he earned his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western On ...

included ''ditch,'' in "Four Online Canadian Literary Journals You Should Know About" on Open Book Toronto. In ''

Sensitive Skin Magazine ''Sensitive Skin'' was a magazine created and edited by B. Kold and Norman Douglas. Started in 1991, the first four issues were titled ''Peau Sensible'', which is French for "Sensitive Skin". Subsequent issues were titled in English. In 1994, Jo ...

'', Mark McCawley called ''ditch,'' one of the "online magazines presently pushing back against the literary status quo in Canada".

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, 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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