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CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN POETRY POEM-TASTING HOUR
by Catherine Graham Before purchasing a CD or downloading tunes, we often taste the music beforehand; have a listen and then decide. Do we like it? Do we want these sounds to be part of our lives? We need to do the same for poetry.
Read MoreDIGITAL SPACES, READING AND POETICS
Part I: Introduction – Reading Poetry Online Ezra Pound is laking it on Niagara. Ezra Pound is picking up tickets for the ballet. Ezra Pound packing his snow board. Ezra Pound misses Matt. :-(. Ezra Pound wants you to be at his launch party on Monday night. Reach for the stars! Ezra Pound is hee…
Read MoreUSING CONTEMPORARY CANADIAN POETRY IN THE CLASSROOM
By John Oughton Poems often begin in memory and end in discovery. –Glen Sorestad Getting Started Many poems use some relatively simple process or “trick” to create their effects. Glen Sorestad suggests one above, which reveals how many poems based on family memories, snapshots, or historical events work. Understanding the process makes it easier to…
Read MoreREVIEW: A MORE PERFECT [ | BY JIMMY MCINNES
BookThug | 124 pages | April 2015 | $18.00 | Purchase online Review by William Kemp, originally published in issue 7 of (parenthetical). — Jimmy McInnes’s A More Perfect [ is the type of book of poetry that I’m secretly jealous of. It’s the type of book of poetry I wish I could write, but fear…
Read More2016 Book Awards: Winners
The League of Canadian Poets is proud to present the 2016 Book Awards Winners, including the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. Learn more about the 2016 awards and celebrate the poetry of 2015: Congratulations to the winners, shortlisters, longlisters and publishers! 2016 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD WINNER Awarded annually…
Read MoreTHAT’S A WRAP: NPM16
It feels like we woke up yesterday and National Poetry Month was just beginning, but somehow it’s May tomorrow and we have to wrap up our celebrations. We’ve had such a great month celebrating poetry, both online and in events across Canada, and seeing what other organizations orchestrated for our favourite month! We’ve definitely missed…
Read MoreHITTING THE ROAD: ATLANTIC PROVINCES
National Poetry Month is almost over, and so too is our virtual road trip. We hit our last four provinces today, driving through PEI, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland and Labrador, and New Brunswick. We know for a fact that all of the Atlantic provinces are highly literary and active, but once again we confess we don’t have…
Read MoreONE WEEK ON THE ROAD
by Alessandra Naccarato — DEPARTURE: Salt Spring Island, BC My cat did not do a very good job of saying goodbye. She slid past my legs and ran into the garden, up a tree. My partner did a better job. Walked me down the hill to the ferry. There’s something perfectly melancholic about saying goodbye…
Read MoreHITTING THE ROAD: QUEBEC
Here, our virtual road trip also becomes physically impossible, as we soar through all of Ontario in just 24 hours and carry on into Quebec. Magic! With just 0.5 french-speaking staff at the League office, we are unfortunately not the most up-to-date with literary goings-on in Quebec, and many of our roundup take place in…
Read MoreHITTING THE ROAD: ONTARIO
We’re out of the prairies and into Ontario on our road trip today, and there’s an impossible amount of amazing literary initiatives in our home province! We can’t possibly go into all of them, so as usual, we recommend checking out your local library or college/university creative writing courses if you’re looking for something in your…
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