Book Awards 2022: Shortlists
The League of Canadian Poets is proud to present the 2022 Book Awards Shortlists, 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 and Toronto Arts Council, – will be announced on May…
Read MoreSaint Lucy by Nancy Holmes
Yarn Over – Knitting for Three by Debbie Okun Hill
NPM22 Blog: Faded Poems and Intimate Connections: Ten Fragments on Writing and Translation by Yilin Wang
I grew up with poetry by my side. One of my earliest memories is that of when I was three or four, bouncing up and down on a bed in the corner of my grandparents’ cramped apartment, repeating after them as they taught me the lines of Tang Dynasty verses in Sichuanese. They passed onto…
Read MorePoems from the Rare Dementia Support Research Project 2022
Today’s Special edition of Poetry Pause features poetry from the collection of poems There is So Much I Could Say (2022). The poems were written as part of the Rare Dementia Support Impact Study, a collaboration between University College London, Nipissing University and Bangor University, and funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and the National Institute for Health Research, UK.
Read MoreRe-Pairing by Nancy Huggett
gravity by Bob MacKenzie
NPM22 Blog: Close Friends by David Delisca
Close Friends. Ok. Whatever. Aight. The close friends feature on Da ‘Gram (Instagram) oftenly trips me out (or in). Bambi legs with sneakers, shuffling in its stance. I’m laced with my understanding of closeness that feels familiar, you know me cuz I know you. Makes it easier to share what I hold precious and as well, a…
Read MoreLate Repair by Ken Victor
NPM22 Blog: We Speak in Poetry by Hasan Namir
Dear reader, If you are reading this, you’re either a poet or someone who appreciates and enjoys reading poetry. Or maybe you’re not a big poetry fan but you want to be. Or maybe you have a love-hate relationship with poetry. And to be honest, I don’t blame you. Whatever your relationship with poetry is,…
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