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2021 Jessamy Stursberg Youth Poetry Prize Winners
Join the League of Canadian Poets in celebrating the six winners of the 2021 Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Prize!
Read MoreStatement of support and call to action: Kamloops Indian Residential School
League of Canadian Poets’ statement of support and call to action regarding the 215 children found buried at Kamloops Indian Residential School The League of Canadian poets stands in mourning alongside Indigenous communities as they grieve the lives of 215 children whose bodies were found buried at the site of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.…
Read MoreMany Shadows, review of In the Shadow of Vimy: Poems, New and Selected, Stewart Donovan, The Nashwaak Press, 2021
Reviewed by Louise Carson We know right away after reading the first poem of In the Shadow of Vimy that the book is not going to be a paean to war. Despite its innocuous title – ‘Picking up Pies at St. John’s Anglican’ – the poem plunges the reader into the poet’s main theme: war…
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