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2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award Winner: How She Read by Chantal Gibson
and the 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award goes to… How She Read by Chantal Gibson (Caitlin Press) From the jurors: Chantal Gibson’s How She Read creates its illuminating poetics through language, image, and a hieroglyphic that only slowly reveals its significance. From a song of praise to Black girls; to an homage to the poet’s grandfather,…
Read More2020 Poetry Awards: Interview with Charlie C Petch
Charlie C Petch is the winner of the 2020 Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award from the League of Canadian Poets. Find out more about Charlie’s poetry and process below. LCP: What does poetry mean to you? CP: For me, poetry is authenticity, a vehicle for change, for growth, play, escape, and nurturing community. LCP: Who has…
Read More2020 Poetry Awards: Interview with Chantal Gibson
Chantal Gibson is the author of How She Read (Caitlin Press), and winner of the 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award from the League of Canadian Poets. Find out more about Chantal’s poetry and process below. LCP: Tell the story of how your collection came to be. CG: I would say How She Read started…
Read More2020 Poetry Awards: Interview with Roxanna Bennett
Roxanna Bennett is the author of Unmeaningable (Gordon Hill Press) and the winner of the 2020 Raymond Souster Award by the League of Canadian Poets. Find out more about Roxanna’s poetry and process below: LCP: Tell the story of how your collection came to be. RB: I began gathering and arranging material in different…
Read More2020 Poetry Awards Winners Announcement
The League of Canadian Poets (LCP) is thrilled to announce the 2020 Poetry Awards winners for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Pat Lowther Memorial Award, Raymond Souster Award and Sheri-D Wilson Golden Beret Award. Congratulations to all of the poets and publishers for their fine work and many thanks to the jurors for their dedication…
Read MoreReview: Treaty # by Armand Garnet Ruffo
Reviewed by Marguerite Pigeon Treaty # opens with a prose poem, “Impetus Ungainly,” in which Armand Garnet Ruffo manipulates language from a 1905 treaty between the British Crown and Ojibwe, Cree and members of other Indigenous groups in Ontario. The poem’s title hints, bitingly, at the treaty’s function. It was the legal body that enforced…
Read MoreReview: Ego of a Nation by Janet Rogers
Reviewed by Miles Morrisseau Janet Marie Rogers’ 7th book of poetry is her double album and it may become her classic. Rogers, who is Mohawk and Tuscarora, is a gifted poet and she has written the book that Canada needs to read in 2020. The year we see clearly: if Canadians wish to look honestly…
Read MoreNational Poetry Month 2020 Blog List
This National Poetry Month 2020 has been full of amazing poetry, poets, and community. In case you missed any of our amazing NPM Blog posts, here is a recap of all the thoughts, ideas, and reflections offered up by our esteemed group of NPM Blog poets. Thank you to all our contributors for your voices…
Read More2020 Book Awards: Winners
The League of Canadian Poets is proud to present the 2020 Book Awards winners of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. The winners will each receive $2000 thanks to funding from Canada Council for the Arts , Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. Learn more about the 2020 awards and celebrate the poetry…
Read MoreA World of Poetry and Fun
by Janet Rogers for National Poetry Month, April 2020 I am a full time writer. I am also single and child-free which makes being a full time writer, that much more fun. I mention this as a way to introduce my position as a global writer. I travel extensively for my career and I stay…
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