“Untitled” by Gillian Sze
Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Untitled” by Gillian Sze, from An Orange, A Syllable (ECW Press, 2025), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Due to its formatting, this poem is only available as an image.
Untitled
By Gillian Sze
from An Orange, A Syllable
Copyright ยฉ Gillian Sze
From An Orange, A Syllable (ECW Press 2025), shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award.
Gillian Sze is a poet and children’s writer. She is the recipient of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for her poetry and essay collection, Quiet Night Think, and the QWFโs A. M. Klein Poetry Prize for her latest book, An Orange, A Syllable. Her books for children have been shortlisted for the Janet Savage Blachford Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Literature, the Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Childrenโs Book Awards, and CBC Kids Read. Gillianโs work has also been translated into Slovenian, French, Italian, Turkish, Hebrew, Spanish, and Greek. She teaches creative writing and literature at Concordia University.
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