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2019 Book Awards: Winners Announcement
The League of Canadian Poets is proud to present the 2019 Book Awards Winners, including the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. The winners – who will each receive $2000 thanks to funding from Canada Council for the Arts , Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and Canada Book Fund – will be announced…
Read MoreASK A SHORTLISTER: What keeps you going as a writer?
We asked the poets shortlisted for our 2019 Book Awards some questions about their writing lives, inspirations and -of course – poetry. Join us for our weekly series Ask a Shortlister until the winners are announced on June 8, 2019. *** What keeps you going as a writer? Mikko Harvey: Writing is one of my main methods of processing experience. Writing allows me to pull some things closer…
Read MorePostcard: a desert sestina by Jennifer Zilm
Hey you!—this postcard, like every other, is just fragmentof a larger journey. Stepping over the thresholdof the plane, I entered this hot roomof a country. Seen entire the desert seems softbut the sand is sharp to touch, like turninghard snow with bare hands when I was a small girl. Old city, feet scalded, I gave…
Read MoreTHE SHORTLIST IN CONVERSATION: Adam Dickinson & Alice Major
The Shortlist in Conversation is a series in which poets shortlisted for the League’s 2019 Book Awards engage with each other’s works and talk poetry. In this installment, Adam Dickinson, author of Anatomic (Coach House Books) and Alice Major, author of Welcome to the Anthropocene (University of Alberta Press) – both collections shortlisted for the 2019 Raymond Souster…
Read MoreASK A SHORTLISTER: When is a collection of poems finished?
We asked the poets shortlisted for our 2019 Book Awards some questions about their writing lives, inspirations and -of course – poetry. Join us for our weekly series Ask a Shortlister until the winners are announced on June 8, 2019. *** How do you know when a collection of poems is finished? Mikko Harvey: Individual poems, in their quiet way, tell you when they…
Read MoreREVIEWING THE SHORTLIST: Welcome to the Anthropocene | By Alice Major
University of Alberta Press | 2018 | 136 Page | $19.95 | Purchase online Reviewed by Jenny Haysom Reviewing the Shortlist is a weekly series in which poets shortlisted for our 2019 Book Awards review books written by their peers. Join us for this series until the award winners are announced on June 8, 2019! In this week’s installment,…
Read MoreASK A SHORTLISTER: Community
We asked the poets shortlisted for our 2019 Book Awards some questions about their writing lives, inspirations and -of course – poetry. Join us for our weekly series Ask a Shortlister until the winners are announced on June 8, 2019. *** What is the importance of community to your writing life? Jenny Haysom: I’m reclusive by nature––a lone…
Read MoreASK A SHORTLISTER: How did poetry become part of your life?
We asked the poets shortlisted for our 2019 Book Awards some questions about their writing lives, inspirations and -of course – poetry. Join us for our weekly series Ask a Shortlister until the winners are announced on June 8, 2019. *** How did poetry become part of your life? Tanis Franco: In Ontario elementary school we had to memorize In…
Read MoreThe Shortlist in Conversation: Klara du Plessis & Laura Ritland
The Shortlist in Conversation is a series in which poets shortlisted for the League’s 2019 Book Awards engage with each other’s works and talk poetry. In this installment, Klara du Plessis, author of Ekke (Palimpsest Press) – shortlisted for the 2019 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award & the 2019 Pat Lowther Memorial Award – and Laura…
Read MoreREVIEWING THE SHORTLIST: Ledi | By Kim Trainor
Book*hug | 2018 | 108 Page | $18.00 | Purchase online Reviewed by Jennifer Zilm Reviewing the Shortlist is a weekly series in which poets shortlisted for our 2019 Book Awards review books written by their peers. Join us for this series until the award winners are announced on June 8, 2019! In this week’s installment,…
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