2022 Anne Szumigalski Lecture – Tolu Oloruntoba

The 2022 Anne Szumigalski Lecture presents: What have we left to us? Examining questions as a means of existential analysis in poetry with Tolu Oloruntoba This lecture is now available in print from Prairie Fire, Winter 22-23 Issue, Volume 43, No. 4. Check it out On the heels of a special Spring Anne Szumigalski Lecture from Parliamentary…

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NPM23 Blog: Joy at the Door by Ash Winters

Oh Joy, how I have searched for you on long dreary winter days. Sometimes thinking I have caught a glimpse of spring out of the corner of my eye only to have it vanish when I turn my head. On occasion, it has taken longer than I thought I could bear for you to arrive,…

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2023 Book Awards Longlists

The League of Canadian Poets is thrilled to announce the 2023 Book Awards longlists for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award,  Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. Please join us in celebrating the incredible poetry of 2022! April 6: Longlists AnnouncementApril 20: Shortlists AnnouncementMay 4: Winners Announcement 2023 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD LONGLIST Awarded annually since…

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2023 Book Awards: Meet the Jurors!

The League of Canadian Poets is honoured to have the following poets as the jurors for our 2023 Book Awards! Thank you for all your hard work and careful reading of the incredible poetry released last year. The Longlists for the 2023 Book Awards will be announced on April 6, Shortlists on April 20, and…

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Fresh Voices 28

Fresh Voices 28

Fresh Voices 28 features poetry by: Padmaja Battani, Karin Cope, Meg Freer, Carol Good, Louisa Howerow, Sadie Kromm, Salem Paige, D.G. Peart, Pauline Sameshima, Lindsay Soberano-Wilson, Megan Stobbe and PJ Thomas.

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Review: ineffable, The Mystical Poems by Edwin Varney

Reviewed by Stephen Morrissey ineffable, The Mystical Poems by Edwin Varney (The Poem Factory, Courtenay, BC, 2022). 14 pages. ISBN: 978-1-895593-57-0 Back in 1977, I reviewed Edwin Varney’s Human Nature (1974), published in CV II (Vol. 3, no. 2); it was my first published book review.  And here I am, so many years later, reviewing Edwin Varney’s new…

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National Poetry Month 2023: Joy – Social Media Graphics

This April 2023, we celebrate National Poetry Month: JOY! LCP has partnered with designer Megan Fildes for our poster, bookmark and Poem In Your Pocket Postcards this National Poetry Month 2023. How will you celebrate poetry and JOY? If you are celebrating NPM in person or online, LCP has prepared the following graphics for your…

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