Posts by LCP
National Poetry Month: Prompted
by Jude Neale for National Poetry Month, April 2020 I have written to many different forms of inspiration—music, art, dance and poetic collaboration. During this process I wrote and published seven books of poems. I am moved by everything to create my imagist poems. This time last year I was determined to follow the NPM19…
Read More2020 Book Awards: Longlists
The League of Canadian Poets is thrilled to announce the 2021 Book Awards longlists for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. Please join us in celebrating the incredible poetry of 2020! Learn more about the 2020 awards and celebrate the poetry of 2019: 2020 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD LONGLIST Awarded…
Read More2020 Very Small Verse Contest Winner: Diana Manole — Lovers
Congratulations to Diana Manole for her winning poem, “Lovers” winner of the 2019-2020 Very Small Verse Contest! Diana Manole is an award-winning writer, translator, and scholar. She has won fourteen literary awards, published nine collections of poems and plays, contributed original works and translations to magazines and anthologies in Romania, Canada, the US, and the UK.…
Read MorePoetry Pause: Wendy Donawa – Going Dark
Review: We Are Malala: poems and art by Katerina Vaughan Fretwell
Review by Penn Kemp A Canadian artist muses on Malala Yousafzai in poetic dialogue Katerina Vaughan Fretwell, We Are Malala: poems and art. Inanna Press “We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.” —Malala Yousafzai On the day I read Katerina Vaughan Fretwell’s We Are Malala, a photo appears on my…
Read MoreReview: Cold Metal Stairs by Su Croll
Reviewed by Marguerite Pigeon Dementia might seem like the anti-muse: not creative inspiration, but its sapping. Yet, in her new collection, Cold Metal Stairs, Su Croll follows dementia—her father’s—as it pulls her vicariously, clanging and spiralling downwards, through grief, fragmentation, and fear. The poems in this collection enact the repetitive, temporally confusing stretch during which…
Read MoreReview: A Poet's Journey: on poetry and what it means to be a poet by Stephen Morrissey
Reviewed by Cynthia Coristine Poetry is the voice of the human soul, speaking across time and distance – Stephen Morrissey In A Poet’s Journey Montreal native Stephen Morrissey shares four decades of insight about what it means to be a poet and the process by which a poet can discover his “authentic voice”. The book…
Read More2020 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award Winner: Charlie C Petch
and the Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award goes to… Charlie C Petch Charlie C Petch is an award winning playwright, spoken word artist, haiku deathmaster, host and musical saw player. Petch is touring their spoken word theatre piece, “Mel Malarkey Gets the Bum’s Rush” which got “Best of 2017” from Electric City Magazine for the radio play accompanying album “Odes…
Read MoreLCP Chapbook Series – These Lands: A Collection of Voices by Black Poets in Canada
Now available! Edited by Chelene Knight and hand-sewn by Nic Brewer, this limited-run chapbook is available for purchase. Fill out the form via the link below to get your copy today. From Chelene Knight’s introduction: “The poems in this collection are filled with incredible Black voices belting necessary narratives. Through a calling in of community,…
Read MorePoetry Pause x Augur: Lynne Sargent – Beauty, Sleeping
About Augur: Augur is a literary magazine that believes we can better engage with our pasts, presents, and futures through stories that explore what-ifs and could-bes. We are excited by writing that is difficult to classify—whether speculative, surreal, or slightly strange. We’re interested in realist pieces that verge on the dreamlike; speculative stories that are almost realist;…
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