Posts by League of Canadian Poets
2023 Book Awards: Meet the Jurors!
The League of Canadian Poets is honoured to have the following poets as the jurors for our 2023 Book Awards! Thank you for all your hard work and careful reading of the incredible poetry released last year. The Longlists for the 2023 Book Awards will be announced on April 6, Shortlists on April 20, and…
Read MoreFresh Voices 28
Fresh Voices 28 features poetry by: Padmaja Battani, Karin Cope, Meg Freer, Carol Good, Louisa Howerow, Sadie Kromm, Salem Paige, D.G. Peart, Pauline Sameshima, Lindsay Soberano-Wilson, Megan Stobbe and PJ Thomas.
Read MoreVery Small Verse Contest Winner 2023: Toulouse’s uncharacteristic heat by Kevin Andrew Heslop
Congratulations to Kevin Andrew Heslop, winner of the 2022-2023 Very Small Verse Contest!
Read MoreBroadsheet Contest 2023 Winner: Tham Luang Cave Rescue by Pujita Verma
Congratulations to Pujita Verma, winner of the 2022-2023 Broadsheet Contest!
Read MoreHang Tight by Ruth Panofsky
Review: Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir by Lindsay Soberano-Wilson
Reviewed by Rion Levy Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir by Lindsay Soberano-Wilson Poetica Publishing, 202355 pages, $16.95ISBN: 978-1-942051-36-7 In her small but packed Casa de mi Corazón, we watch Lindsay Soberano-Wilson grow up and into herself. She mainly concerns herself with the question of identity and how it shapes belonging.…
Read MoreReview: ineffable, The Mystical Poems by Edwin Varney
Reviewed by Stephen Morrissey ineffable, The Mystical Poems by Edwin Varney (The Poem Factory, Courtenay, BC, 2022). 14 pages. ISBN: 978-1-895593-57-0 Back in 1977, I reviewed Edwin Varney’s Human Nature (1974), published in CV II (Vol. 3, no. 2); it was my first published book review. And here I am, so many years later, reviewing Edwin Varney’s new…
Read MoreNational Poetry Month 2023: Joy – Social Media Graphics
This April 2023, we celebrate National Poetry Month: JOY! LCP has partnered with designer Megan Fildes for our poster, bookmark and Poem In Your Pocket Postcards this National Poetry Month 2023. How will you celebrate poetry and JOY? If you are celebrating NPM in person or online, LCP has prepared the following graphics for your…
Read MoreWhen the day is nearly done, a review of Timed Radiance, by Donna Langevin
Reviewed by Louise Carson Timed Radiance, by Donna Langevin (Aeolus House, 2022). There are many examples of fine language in this collection of poems that have (mostly) been written as a summation of one poet’s long life. So, I’ll be presenting a lot of quotes. The first one comes from the first poem ‘Even with…
Read MoreTrying to be the tree: a review of somewhere still in wind the tree is bending by Bob MacKenzie
Reviewed by Louise Carson somewhere still in wind the tree is bending Silver Bow Publishing, 201882 pages, $20.00ISBN: 9781927616758 The tree is on the front cover, a weathered and twisted bonsai-shaped thing, growing out of rock. The title slows me right down; is why I chose to review the book. And you know, at this…
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