Congrats to Doyali Islam, winner of the 2017 Broadsheet Contest.

Doyali Islam’s poetry has been published in Kenyon Review Online and The Fiddlehead. She is the winner of Arc’s 2016 Poem of the Year Contest and CV2’s 2015 Young Buck Poetry Prize. Her poem “cat and door” won the League of Canadian Poets’ inaugural National Broadsheet Contest in 2017. Doyali’s full-length poetry manuscript is heft and sing; it contains formal innovations, including the poetic form that she created, which she has termed the ‘parallel poem’. Examples of her ‘parallel poems’ can be found in CV2 (34.2), Arc (79), and Unpublished City (June 2017). Ailurophile and minimalist, she lives in Toronto.

Doyali Islam has won publication in the 2017 Poem In Your Pocket Day Booklet, and a special broadsheet of their poem handcrafted by artist Briar Craig. 

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Meet the Broadsheet Artist

Briar Craig is a printmaking professor at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus.  He has an MFA in printmaking from the University of Alberta.  His recent work focuses on the interplay between imagery and text.  Taking Roland Barthes’ Death of the Author as a starting point he plays with the idea that we are all the authors of the works we see by juxtaposing a number of disparate elements in order to create narrative, interpretive opportunities for the viewer.