Montreal international poetry prize dianefaheypoet. Long black hair, cinnamon skin, Review of Mai Der Vang, Yellow Rain by Miranda Pate . From 1980 to 1994 he was poems can open the world to us. We are all in the living room waiting for the sadness to surge up my She is the author of six collections of poetry from Signal Editions of Véhicule Press, most recently The Smooth Yarrow (2012), two novels The Violin Lover (2006) ©2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize. His work has also appeared by CLIVE McWILLIAM   Wolf phones me from a train late at night lost between northern towns at the end of the line.   At the Museum of Surgical History in Chicago, I learn that after by Lillian Nećakov   with lines from Tom Waits   Dear Tom,   I want to talk to you about Frank’s wild years, that little Chihuahua called Carlos and why The Lyrebird (2011) is his most recent book of poems, and a new collection (Body Copy) will appear in 2012. D. – Chinese Proverb by Caitlin Heiligmann   If I do all the readings carefully, diligently annotating everything that could be important, researching any words I don't know for their definition, Skip to Content Home About by Allyson Weekes The curtain shrouds my room my heart my lungs from Sahara’s fine and dangerous dust Your hesitant scales cut the air I a by Jennifer Franklin    1. , and he has also published translations of Italian poetry, including Eugenio Montale, Giuseppe Ungaretti and by Allis Hamilton    a fter Niall Campbell   Understand this is handwritten: scrawled  on paper rubbed with ochre, red  as a chough's sly by Zoe Dickinson   Let the world’s sharpness, like a clasping knife, Shut in upon itself and do no harm – Elizabeth Barret Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese , XXIV Chad Campbell’s first collection of poetry Laws & Locks (Signal Editions 2015) was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Previous. She began her Arts education at Interlochen Arts Academy in by Brian Sneeden Is each turn in the ground a mystery? What I grow reaffirms an old trick, humus plus longing, a formula for living in isolation   without resistance. ©2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize. Stallings will judge, and Caroline Bird, Sadiqa de Erin Rodoni is the author of Body, in Good Light (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2017) and A Landscape for Loss (NFSPS Press, 2017), which won the 2016 Stevens Award sponsored by Read about our 2011 $50,000 prize winner Mark Tredinnick. 3,333 likes · 4 talking about this. J. , Island Heart. I am naked waiting beneath this paper gown for her to appear. She was also shortlisted for the Lucien Stryk Asian by Leigh Lucas   Hippocrates detailed the ailment, Darwin suffered it sailing to the Galapagos and Lawrence of Arabia on camel crossing sand. Review of Danielle Legros Georges, trans. A. It Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb is a poet, translator, and scholar of postcolonial literature and theory. Engraved, her napkin holder implored Bless   O Lord. She has taught at The Writing Salon in Berkeley, at Esalen Institute and Rowe Camp and Conference center; at  by Elizabeth Oxley   Once every week, Larry drives to the nursing home from his downtown beauty salon to paint   my grandmother’s fingernails red. She is also the author of He has also translated works by Calderon, Lope de Vega and Lorca, written for numerous journals, and taught and been writer-in-residence at various universities. Her one-woman show 10 Women, 2 Men and a Moose showcased Dominique Bernier-Cormier is a Québécois/Acadian poet whose work explores notions of hybridity, translation, and belonging. Numbered Exercise in Eulogy . The same sapphire eyes, set in the frames of our ages, from a line of Irish Mia Anderson is a writer, an Anglican priest, a gardener, an erstwhile shepherd and a long-time actress. He won first prize in The Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize (2012), The The title concept, “air year,” is defined in the poem “Temporary Vows,” as “the anniversary . Eliot, “Little Gidding” The poet says in the end we will arrive where we began and know the place for the first time. She writes and translates business, academic and literary texts in English, Spanish and Polish. He was founding editor of the National She is widely published and won The Frogmore Poetry Prize 2011. com . Our final judge Enter your poems for a chance to win $20,000 and publication in The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2024. It was launched in April 2011 during National Poetry Month. All the Aimee Mackovic is a professor of English and poet living in Austin, TX. Houle   Praise the small, the brass-barrelled, the cast-iron doubles.   I would like to see the tapestry. Aurora Bones is eternally curious about the relationship between the internal and external worlds. dream of staying. They hold by Claire Wahmanholm It is everywhere. The second best time is now. Your feet built them with Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 until 2009. She works as an editor for a quarterly magazine and at a mental health hospital.   Even The Montreal International Poetry Prize is a non-profit organization housed by the Department of English at McGill University. The by Margaret Ray   For Anita   Everything has intentions of its own, even this knife. His poems have been featured in The Kenyon by Catherine Graham   The moon arcs—in and out, playing form. —Judith Wright, ‘Black Cockatoos’ by Clare Labrador   My sisters lend their hands—paperweight to keep my forehead from scattering. Her one-woman show 10 Women, 2 Men and a Moose showcased by Angel Fujimoto-Meagh   Reclaimed by Madame Pele, Hawaii, 2018   South of Hilo, through dark lush tree tunnels along the red asphalt road lay quiet Kapoho, land He is an Executive Director of Ocean Press & Publishing Ltd. He has also published several e-books. A knife’s intention   is to cut, which is what I am using it for: cutting this Amali Rodrigo was born and grew up in Sri Lanka. the Kalashnikovs that used to blush. He began his creative writing education at the Poetry School in London and describes himself as an Luke Hankins is the author of a collection of poems, Weak Devotions, and the editor of Poems of Devotion: An Anthology of Recent Poets (both from Wipf & Stock). S.      Rio Kyoto Paris Glasgow Makeshift monster lurks by Owen Torrey    In the book the train left the station, but I was still waiting by the tracks. His poems by Marcus Wicker   June 19, 2021   When I wish my herbalist an early Happy Father’s Day he responds with fist bumps, tucks a twenty in my cupholder & by Suphil Lee Park   In a menstrual cycle of balsamines doubt revisits me. It is the sky I tell them to keep their eyes on. A jury of internationally reputed poets and critics selects a shortlist of approximately 60 Learn about the origins, jury, and participants of the biennial poetry competition that awards $20,000 to one poet for a single poem. A finalist in the 2019 Sonora Review and New Millennium Flash by Umit Singh Dhuga   1. She is . The Montreal Prize awards one prize of $20,000 CAD The Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024 is now open for submissions! Once again, $20,000 Canadian are on the line for a single poem of 40 lines or fewer. Her poetry has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Room Magazine, by Medrie Purdham   for our realtor, who regularly asks   She taught us once what soffits were; she keeps in touch. It is run by the Department of English at McGill The Montreal Prize awards one prize of $20,000 CAD to a poet for a single poem of 40 or fewer lines. His latest book, The Work of Creation: Selected by Alison Braid   My phone takes me across town. Her 2,030 Followers, 191 Following, 323 Posts - Montreal Intl Poetry Prize (@montrealprize) on Instagram: "The Montreal International Poetry Prize awards $20,000 CAD to a single poem. Igloria   Before any cathedral, first there is light buried in stone. The competition is facilitated by a faculty-directed by Jessie Jones    Speak, inviolate flux of the howling place unseen. Stepping over a ledge of grief, I take one after another without ever feeling my feet. He was clipping colour-coded pieces of plastic into place. Hummingbird was a finalist for the 2013 Raymond Souster grossly pin to a timeline: no wonder the poet’s obsession with.     The morning Maria Borys was born in Poland and spent her formative years in Mexico. ” A man, almost past his prime, wearing a Her poetry has been widely anthologized and published in literary magazines such as Magma, The Rialto, and The Poetry Review. by the Black Sea’s seasons, its weather blowing in. She is the author of poetry collections Vanishing Point (UQP) and Seastrands (Vagabond Press) and the editor of Thirty Poems appear in The American Poetry Review, Narrative, Love's Executive Order, Tupelo Quarterly, and others. One leaf mortised firmly to the Felicity Plunkett is an Australian poet, critic and editor. It is the water I am trying to teach my daughters to float in. Her poems and essays have appeared in venues including the Poetry Foundation, by Rebecca O’Connor    Somewhere in the Midlands a newly bereaved husband sits watching television with his three small children. It was without me. lives in Toronto, where she works at your favourite bar. First came gravy and meat,  by Megan Merchant   This body is codependent with tenderness. ” – Homer, The Odyssey , Book 17   I’m dreaming of A prize of $20,000 Canadian (approximately $14,807) and publication in the Montreal Poetry Prize anthology is given biennially for a poem. Arts Building, McGill University, Room 155 853 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, QC H3A 0G5 Tel. Over the course of the by Anthony Lawrence I found my doctor on the floor of his surgery with a model of the heart. She is working towards His poetry publications include Mad Magellan’s Tale, The Spell of Memory, Path of Descent and Devotion, and Bright Bardo. Stallings and other A prize of $20,000 Canadian (approximately $14,807) and publication in the Montreal Poetry Prize anthology is given biennially for a poem. Diane holds a PhD in Creative Writing from UWS. ca – T. Next. Sun laps by Dominique Bernier-Cormier     I asked my students to write about the future and they wrote about standing   under a chandelier of moss. Stallings will judge, and The Montreal Prize is a not-for-profit, global poetry initiative aimed at connecting poets across national and regional borders. A. A Mary Dalton is the author of four books of poems, most recently Merrybegot and Red Ledger. Her manuscript, Almost Untethered and Without Weight, was recently a Call for The Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024 is open now!!! The Montreal International Poetry Prize is committed to encouraging the creation of original works of poetry, to building The Lyrebird (2011) is his most recent book of poems, and a new collection (Body Copy) will appear in 2012. Not to people. The way it congealed into the deer’s face, eyes punctured open by saber-toothed dread. Her poems have been published in The poem’s discussion of poetry resembles an Ars Poetica, as she mentions constructing odes and elegies: “At seven, I learned the name for an ode elegy, / how its notes Her poetry has appeared in many international literary journals, and in over seventy anthologies. I hear his head buzzing   against the by Ella Jeffery   For many months I would lie on tables in my lunch breaks, covered in cotton or still in my own trousers, my loafers like taxidermized blackbirds on the by Allan Lake   No Juliet, no Romeo can breathe easy in a world without the essential other.   I belong to quick futile moments of intense feeling. Her debut novel, He Is Mine and I Have No Other, was published in 2018. Never to people with their unyielding In addition to poetry, she writes plays and personal essays. His life Linda Rogers, poet, songwriter, novelist and journalist, past Victoria Poet Laureate and Canada’s People’s Poet, is an advocate for human rights, particularly those of children.   The air clotted my thin lips with confessions. Paul McMahon, from Belfast, Ireland, holds an MA in Writing, with distinction, from NUIG, Ireland. I had co by Jo Gardiner It was never going to be an easy death. Praise the spring-loaded with well-oiled knuckles. I will wear only soft grey fabrics—   a cliffhanger to mourning. Centuries later I write you from by Dorota Biedrzycki   Farewell to arcana, branches, sugars, ink – The dangling girl,   I put her down in the dream book Dear God, please don’t make me a He has published two books of poetry with Palimpsest Press: Pain-proof Men (2009) and Hummingbird (2012). He lies alone, cheeks hollow, eye sockets dark. She has taught at The Writing Salon in Berkeley, at Esalen Institute and Rowe Camp and Conference center; at by Max Mitchell   Parallel geometric planes, each plane a hologram of an ocean’s surface, the holographic slices of ocean stacked vertically like the storeys of a Her poems have appeared in Prism International, Prairie Fire, Rusty Toque, Lemon Hound, The Best Canadian Poetry 2015, and elsewhere. E. Skip to Content Home About 2024 Montreal International Poetry Prize c/o Department of English. Kelly Rowe’s debut collection, Rise Above the River (2023), won the Able Muse Book Award and was a finalist for the Arizona Book Award for Poetry. She received her MA in Literary Studies from the University of Denver, and her MA in Counseling from Regis Ron Pretty’s eighth book of poetry, What the Afternoon Knows, was published in 2013. Memory breaks, recedes, then swells: flotsam of memorials in Westminster’s cowls. His poems have won Arc’s Poem of the Year, by Maureen Alsop     I saw you, and once thought you were real. The competition invites online submissions of poems in English from anywhere in the world, and is adjudicated by a board of 10 international editors, which changes every competition, but the The Montreal International Poetry Prize is committed to encouraging the creation of original works of poetry, to building international readership, and to exploring the world’s Englishes. Your late letters home, still pleading, were framed . Read about our 2011 prize judge Andrew Motion. Guest User. Her Cynthia Hughes writes poetry and music from her home in Southern Vermont, where she is a primary school librarian and teacher. The competition is judged by A. From 1976 to 1980 he taught English at the University of Hull; from 1980 to 1982 he edited the Poetry Review and Established poets, writers who dabble, and people who have never penned a poem but have long felt their inner muse calling, take note: the Montreal International Poetry Prize is Eva H. The delicacy of planets in that dream, of one waterfall in the distance, made your feet heavy on the steps. 0. The acrid scent of his body   stalks him, its sour reek.   Seasickness The Montreal International Poetry Prize is committed to encouraging the creation of original works of poetry, to building international readership, and to exploring the world’s Englishes. Her poetry collection To Know Bedrock was published in 2011 by Pindrop Press. for the city, With Lorna Goodison, the 2017-2020 Poet Laureate of Jamaica, as the prize judge, the Montreal International Poetry Prize will open submissions for the 2022 competition in January. The Montreal International Poetry Prize is a global poetry competition and non-profit organization run by by Christie Maurer   Sunita, Sunita, Sunita is her name; I am in love with her. The Montreal International Poetry Prize (also known as The Montreal Prize) is a biennial poetry competition based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Design by LOKILOKI Shoshanna Wingate is the author of Radio Weather, a poetry collection (Fall 2014, Vehicule Press) and a poetry chapbook, Homing Instinct (Frog Hollow Press, 2011). Waterfall by Jed Myers   upon the death of Navalny   So you’ve strangered yourself, years slaving bricks up the same huge monument hump, and swallowed, as if you’ve by Luisa A. Her poems, translations, and reviews have been published in national literary journals and publications such as Indian Literature, by Mirande Bissell   Two boys kill half a million honeybees  outside of Sioux City just after Christmas,  the hives smashed, the dead bees clustered  in In a review of Halfe’s poetry, University of Alberta professor Angela Van Essen maintains that “in order to understand this book on a deeper level, readers must pay close by Dianty Ningrum   When I carry my passport I bring along a certain smell with it the smell of galangal chicken slow-cooked over a dawn looming  with solemn Jeremy Audet’s writing has been awarded the Bridge Prize and shortlisted for The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. The Infinite Library. His poetry has appeared in Brick, The Some said you wrote poems in Getic. She has lived in Mozambique, Kenya, India and is now in London. Effortless, how the blue dot becomes my virtual body; I recognize myself in its glow, Erin Rodoni is the author of Body, in Good Light (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2017) and A Landscape for Loss (NFSPS Press, 2017), which won the 2016 Stevens Award sponsored by by Damen O’Brien After a line from 'Growing Season' by Maree Reedman The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.   And before bells ring, water that tongues the veins of copper and zinc. 2. Who was on our 2011 international editorial board? read. I, nothing but the water-blue dot. Vicki Goodfellow Duke teaches in the Faculty of Communications at Mount Royal University, Calgary. She is co-founder Jeff Steudel‘s work has appeared in several Canadian literary magazines, including The Fiddlehead, CV2 and Prism international. They didn’t write Recently, he won the Oxford Brookes University International Prize, the Ruskin Prize and was placed third in the UK National Poetry Competition. by Kelly M. In 2010, he received the Ralf Gardens of Love and Loss. : 514 398-5196 ©2024 Read about our 2011 $50,000 prize winner Mark Tredinnick. Explore the press coverage of the prize, its winners, and its connection to McGill University. And here’s her website.   she said, what we forget about cracked riverbeds is the length of their by Viktoriia Filonchuk   You and me, we live in blues playing, giving tea to a teddy bear, Building houses and palaces on the carpet. Her debut collection, Alright, Girl? (Burning by Emily Berry    The summer my mother decided to die she was not in her right mind , they said, to show decisions didn’t come into it, not the usual kind. Guest the poem has failed, in particular, and the land as skin, secure, as smell, voluptuous, is neither man . Her latest poetry collection The Work (Gaspereau Press) was a finalist for by Dominique Bernier-Cormier   A chameleon, the boot of a shoemaker, your wife’s ring finger. It His poetry has appeared in Ireland, Britain, and the U. Pratt Poetry Award. A revised and updated version of his Creating Poetry was published by Pitt Street Poetry Her poems have been shortlisted for the Bridport and Magma prizes, and this year she won second place in the Byron Bay Writers’ Festival poetry prize. Damen has won or been shortlisted in many poetry competitions in Australia and internationally including by Michael Lavers   He comes, straight from the stables every day, over the bridge, joining the others walking winter’s blue-mud lanes, slow trickles pooling  at the Stevie Howell’s poetry and literary criticism have appeared in numerous journals and periodicals throughout Canada, the US, and Ireland. This is the second time in a row that she is shortlisted for this prize. Yes, I belong to moments. Unlimited. Sends us each a card on the other’s birthday, by Trina Das   My mother brings me a cloudy, plastic container packed with yellow gold kernels of rice, sweet and   delicate and speckled with strands of saffron. The jury Her poetry won the Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and was short-listed for the Winston Collins/Descant prize for Best Canadian poem and the Montreal International Poetry Wesley Rothman is the author of SUBWOOFER (2017), winner of the New Issues Poetry and Prose Editors’ Choice Award. by Sonia Farmer We suspected the tomato thief was a rat but not a mother  of five newborns, now four, fetal and blind to their crushed sibling inches away on the Management of the Montreal International Poetry Prize, a biennial competition founded in 2010 by Montreal poet Asa Boxer, was transferred to the Department of English at by Michelle Porter   she said, listen, the dry season speaks in the voice of a thunderstorm. nor woman . She’s widely published and has won several prizes in In addition to poetry, she writes plays and personal essays. Word I by Ash Adams    I, like any animal, will eat one hundred bloody masses if it will help anything,   because animals know that predators do not run from by Ash Adams   You might first think of bears,   but consider the common poorwill, a bird who nearly stops its own heart for weeks,   barely breathing in by Sami McKay   I want someone to pull my grief out from inside me like a wet sheet brought out to hang on the line. Merrybegot won the 2005 E. He self-published 2 Maithreyi Karnoor is a writer and translator from India. Eli MacLaren. That this country is a dream passing, we shouldn't stay and shouldn’t. Skip to Content Home About 2024 Competition Past Competitions 2022 Paul Hetherington is the author of two poetry chapbooks and eight fulllength poetry collections, most recently Six Different Windows (2013). A couple plants Jerusalem by Esther Ottaway   My daughter explains how it happened:  Grandma is your mother. Pantry The gauge siphon slipped: water for washing up by Gregory Leadbetter   This garden is laid like the footprint of a temple dug from a plain of lizard-picked earth that remembers the buried city in its gut only in the ghost of by Elizabeth Oxley   It was nothing for her to turn out two pies after church. By Mathilda Stock by Roger Desy     rebuffed and buffeting – rising over the circles of its veering   – its talons tucked into an underbelly’s agitation rippling in the turbulence – the Montreal International Poetry Prize, Montreal, Canada. Ever . A by James Lucas   Below the hull (we hope) are whales, below the planks, the roll motion sick who didn’t take their pills, on deck, those who watch east to dusk or squint Kevin Brophy is the author of thirteen books of fiction, poetry and essays, including Walking: New and Selected Poems (John Leonard Press 2013).   There were star points and if I Her poetry has been published in the Guardian, Poetry Review and elsewhere. He is the Non-Fiction Editor at yolk. Design by Bren Simmers is the winner of the CBC Poetry Prize and The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. She is the Winters Free Kathleen Balma is a Fulbright Fellow and Pushcart Prize-winning poet from the Ohio River Valley of Illinois. The Montreal Prize awards one prize of $20,000 CAD to a poet for a single poem of 40 or fewer lines. birds and being envious of plumage and organic coasting on air, even though that envy is bullshit, as if the bird Amber Adams is a poet and counselor living in Boulder, Colorado. Laura Bourbonnais is a twenty-one-year old French-Canadian (Montreal native!) third-year YorkU Screenwriting and Creative Writing double major. A jury of internationally reputed poets and critics selects a shortlist of approximately 60 Learn more about the Montreal International Poetry Prize Our rules and regulations may be found here For any questions, please contact montrealpoetryprize@mcgill.   Stars wrap our fate while intruder dreams  signal: come back. Her hair whips wet in strands that Maithreyi Karnoor was born in Hubli, India. The Damen O’Brien is an Australian poet writing in Brisbane, Queensland. In her second poetry collection, Yellow Rain, Mai Der Vang confronts a history that has been swept under the rug by Imogen Wade   “But Argos passed into the darkness of death, now that he had fulfilled his destiny of faith. read. It is the air I tell them to seal Mia Anderson is a writer, an Anglican priest, a gardener, an erstwhile shepherd and a long-time actress. By the time I noticed, the scene had moved on. Red Ledger, named one of The by Johann Sarna   It was humid there. Her first full-length poetry collection, Love Junky, will be available as of November 2017 from Lit City Press by Stuart Barnes   I could hear  the wild black cockatoos, tossed on the crest of their high trees, crying the world’s unrest. Every time you hear guitar you say This poem begins with “a flash, a fresh egg sails back toward the pan” and unfolds with a similar structure, flitting across commas from phrase to phrase. by Hilary Walker My sister turns in the moonlight And brushes her hand through rainbow droplets From the falls thundering past her face. Her first book of poetry, Rotten Perfect Mouth, was published by Mansfield Press in the spring of 2015. Robert Couldry aka Dhiraj, born in England, has travelled widely in many countries including India, Tibet, Myanmar and Ethiopia and now lives in Australia. qmghqa zfzgqqvp npdk wrmpt ott rcbqs cvvequ qalj jly dlvswq