Congratulations to Sue Goyette, winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize for her book outskirts!! The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia Literary Awards were presented Friday in Halifax at the Dalhousie University Club in Halifax. New Brunswick writer David Adams Richards is the winner of the Read more...
Congratulations to Susan Gillis and her book The Rapids – finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. This prize is sponsored by Richard Pound in memory of his brother Robert. Here’s the list for poetry. Oana Avasilichioaei, We, Beasts (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers) Mary di Michele, Read more...
Ann Scowcroft and her book The Truth of Houses has been shortlisted for the 2012 Award for People’s Poetry, announced by the Acorn-Plantos Award Committee. Congratulations also to Barry Dempster (Dying a Little, Wolsak and Wynn) and Tim Bowling (Tenderman, Nightwood Editions). Here is Read more...
For those of us who feel they don’t have time to waste on mediocre offerings from the poetic muse, The Rapids by Susan Gillis is a relief. Without slipping into self indulgence, Gillis treads the ground of the personal with consummate care, linking loss with natural images like dragonflies and Read more...
Julie Bruck and her book Monkey Ranch are nominated for the 2012 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Congratulations, Julie!! For the full press release, see http://www.canadacouncil.ca/news/releases/2012/pe129935980746037097.htm To read more about this book, go here Read more...
You can vote for her or for Nyla Matuk (with 2 poems in this competition), Stevie Howell or Bardia Sinaee. Readers’ Choice: Public voting open from August 31 to September 30, 2012. For more information, go to http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2012/08/30/the-walrus-poetry-prize-vote/ Read more...
We received more than 2,300 submissionsto the CBC Poetry Competition. Here are the 36 works on the longlist for the 2011-2012 prize (alphabetical by author). Congratulations to those that made the longlist! http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/2012/09/poetry-prize-the-longlist.html Read more...
A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth by Stephanie Bolster, A Walker in the City by Méira Cook and The Truth of Houses by Ann Scowcroft are longlisted for the ReLit Awards!! The ReLit Awards acknowledge the best new work released by independent publishers. For the full listings of longlisted Read more...
“This is poetry at its most primal, spiritual and souled. Everything, now is just this. Everything. Now.” writes Shannon Webb-Campbell in the Telegraph-Journal. For the full review, go here “For its intimacy, unique structure, and handfuls of piercing moments — moments that, Read more...
Atlantic Books Today Interview – Sue Goyette’s poetry has appeared on the Toronto subway system, in wedding vows and spray-painted on a sidewalk. With three collections of poetry published, including the most recent tour de force outskirts (Brick Books), she’s been nominated for several Read more...
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