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September 2013 Volume 10, Number 9 St@nza ‐ September 2013 Volume 10, Number 9 To include your news, events or other listings please contact Ingel Madrus at: Email: [email protected], Phone: 416‐504‐1657, Fax: 416‐504‐0096 News from the LCP Page 1 Opportunities Page 5 New Members Page 7 Poetry & Literary News Page 1 Events & Readings Page 5 Members News Page 7 NEWS FROM THE LCP Submit Your Titles for the Raymond Souster, Pat Lowther and Gerald Lampert Memorial Awards The deadline for submission to these awards is November 1st, 2013. For books that are published after this date, but still within the calendar year, please e‐mail me by November 1st, 2013 to arrange to have the deadline extended to Dec 15th. Please note: Titles will not be accepted past the deadline unless these arrangements have been made prior to November 1, 2013. If you are a League member, please contact your publisher to see if your title has been submitted before sending it in yourself to avoid duplication. For more information on these awards, and to download a submission form, please go to: http://poets.ca/wordpress/contests‐awards The Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Canadian Youth There are two age categories, junior (grades 7‐9) and senior (grades 10‐12). First place poems in each category will receive a cash prize of $350, second place winners will receive $300 and third place winners will receive $250. All winning poems will be published in the League of Canadian Poets’ e‐zine, Re:verse at www.youngpoets.ca. All winners will receive Jessamy Stursberg Poetry Contest for Youth certificates and student memberships in the League of Canadian Poets for one year. For guidelines: http://poets.ca/wordpress/contests‐awards. Deadline: January 15. News from the Feminist Caucus By Anne Burke, Chair. This month reviews of Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity, by Lorraine York; Dark Water Songs, by Mary Loy Souter‐Hynes, Archive of the Undressed, by Jeannette Lynes, Einstein's Cat by Zoe Landale, and The Boreal Dragon: Encounters with a Northern Land, by Kate Bitney; Previews of Escape Velocity, by Carmelita McGrath and This House is Still Standing, by Adrienne Barrett. The Calgary Women's Centre is moving at the end of September and needs volunteers! For full report: http://poets.ca/wordpress/programs‐2/feminist‐caucus POETRY AND LITERARY NEWS CBC Poetry Prize: The Longlist CBC's Canada Writes, along with our partners the Canada Council for the Arts, Air Canada’s enRoute magazine and The Banff Centre, are pleased to announce the 37 works on the longlist for the 2013 CBC Poetry Prize. The following texts were selected from over 2,000 submissions received from across the country. • Portraits by Joshua Bouchard (Elliot Lake, ON) • Migration (1851‐1882) by Lauren Carter (The Pas, MB) • Writers' Bedrooms by Kate Cayley (Toronto, ON) • Cracked by Meira Cook (Winnipeg, MB) • Little children, little children! by Meira Cook (Winnipeg, MB) • Song and Temporary by Kayla Czaga (Vancouver, BC) • Waiting for spring, or something by Ruth Daniell (Vancouver, BC) • Collection of Poems by Carolyn Doornekamp (Toronto, ON) 1 • Laurentian Suite by Susan Glickman (Toronto, ON) • Homage by Jenny Haysom (Ottawa, ON) • Cueva de Pileta by Maureen Hynes (Toronto, ON) • Morning in the burned house by Veronika Izabela (Toronto, ON) • Guestbook Entries by Gordon Johnston (Otonabee‐South Monaghan, ON) • The River by Andrew Julnes (Vancouver, BC) • Seizures by Garth Martens (Victoria, BC) • Rote Welter by Garth Martens (Victoria, BC) • Waiting for Wind by Claire Matthews (Surrey, BC) • On Naming and the Origin of Pity by Cassidy McFadzean (Regina, SK) • SON‐LINE by Christopher Penny (High River, AB) • The Jargon Of Satyrs by Christopher Penny (High River, AB) • Borealis by Pamela Porter (North Saanich, BC) • Marie by Michael Prior (Richmond, BC) • We Are Approximate Beings Made Proximate By Love; Bone Houses by Bruce Rice (Regina, SK) • A Hedgehog in the Kitchen Keeps the Cockroaches at Bay by Robin Richardson (Mississauga, ON) • Sit How You want, Dear; No One's Looking by Robin Richardson (Mississauga, ON) • Einstein's Beach by Linda Rogers (Victoria, BC) • Two Girls by Laisha Rosnau (Coldstream, BC) • Placebo by Elizabeth Ross (Toronto, ON) • The Trailer by James Scoles (Winnipeg, MB) • I Blame MASH For My Addiction To MLS by Bren Simmers (Vancouver, BC) • Bluegrass Meteorology by Alison Smith (New Germany, NS) • Body Temperature by Kilby Smith‐McGregor (Toronto, ON) • Strolling into Loveliness by Susan Stenson (Victoria, BC) • In Baghdad it is Night by Kim Trainor (Vancouver, BC) • Maslow's Frozen Basement by Janet Trull (Ancaster, ON) • One Day in the City of Longing by Mark Wagenaar (Dentont, TX, USA) • Portage by Phoebe Wang (Toronto, ON) Congratulations to everyone who made the longlist! And thank you to everyone who participated. This year’s readers were Elizabeth Bachinsky, Katherine Bitney, Alex Boyd, Amatoritsero Ede, Andrew Faulkner, Barbara Klar, Grant Loveys, Carmelita McGrath, Philip Kevin Paul and Sarah Tsiang. We will be running Q&As with them over the next two weeks to find out how they tackled the challenge of reading all of this year’s entries. Be sure to check back on September 17th when we will announce the shortlist for the prize. Nobel Prize‐Winning Irish Poet Seamus Heaney Dies at 74 Seamus Heaney, one of the world’s best‐known poets and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature, has died aged 74 after a short illness, his family said on Friday. Northern Ireland‐born Heaney, one of the world’s foremost poets writing in English whose works include his 1966 debut “Death of a Naturalist”, “The Spirit Level” and “District and Circle”, died in a Dublin hospital on Friday morning. “The poet and Nobel Laureate died in hospital in Dublin this morning after a short illness,” said a statement on behalf of the Heaney family released by his publishers Faber and Faber. For full Globe and Mail article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/nobel‐prize‐winning‐irish‐poet‐seamus‐ heaney‐dies‐at‐74/article14036308/ 2 Poetry in Abundance at The Word On The Street Toronto The Word On The Street Toronto is thrilled to celebrate more poetry than ever before at this year’s festival! From veteran writers Austin Clarke and Robert Priest to Halifax Poet Laureate Shauntay Grant and the Toronto Poetry Slam Team, there is something for everyone. Featured on (and on the way to) its popular stages around Queen’s Park Circle, The Word On The Street is pleased to present Poetry’s many facets when the annual festival returns on Sunday, September 22, 2013. Festival‐goers won’t want to miss these highlights: Join Adam Dickinson and Gillian Savigny as they use poetry to transgress boundaries between art and science at noon at the Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent. Scotiabank Giller Prize‐winning fiction author Austin Clarke will debut his first‐ever poetry collection Where the Sun Shines Best at the Bestsellers Stage at 2:15. Over at the Great Books Marquee at 3:00, new poet Sara Peters joins long‐time fan favourite Robert Priest for Out of the Darkness. Peters and Priest will read from their just‐published collections on emerging from darkness, and follow with a discussion about what inspired their transformative works. Also at 3:00, poets Andrew Faulkner and Jacob Scheier are onstage at the Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent to explore concepts of identity in their modern context. Around Queen’s Park Circle, Poetry hits the street when the 2013 Toronto Poetry Slam Team performs “guerilla spoken word” from 2:30 – 4:30. Co‐presented by The League of Canadian Poets and Toronto Poetry Project, the team will later compete in a slam against each other! Guests will be treated to some high‐energy, thoughtful and compelling spoken word from some of Toronto’s most talented poets and be invited to jump in as well! Sign up on‐site or in advance to battle the team at 5:00, back at the Vibrant Voices of Ontario Tent. Participants are asked to prepare two poems, limit their time to three minutes and 10 seconds, and focus on their voice (no props, costumes, or covers!). Get the full scoop at [email protected]. And that’s not all… Children’s poet Shauntay Grant will present Apples and Butterflies, a gentle, lyrical poem about a family’s autumn vacation in the bright blue and orange light of fall. In this interactive performance, Grant, who was Halifax’s third Poet Laureate, will weave spoken word, music and rhythm into an event that is sure to wow audiences of all ages. Two of Canada’s favourite poets—Anne Michaels, whose new book‐length poem, Correspondences, hits bookstores in November, and Robert Priest—are contributors to The Word On The Street’s Journal Reflections initiative, an auction of Moleskine® journals customized by great Canadian writers. About The Word On The Street: Each September, in the cities of Toronto, Halifax, Lethbridge, Saskatoon, and Kitchener, The Word On The Street unites the country in a national celebration of literacy and the written word. Annually attracting more than 200,000 visitors to its Queen’s Park Circle location, The Word On The Street Toronto is the largest book and magazine festival in Canada. For more information: www.thewordonthestreet.ca/toronto |@TorontoWOTS | Facebook Finalists Announced for 2013 Toronto Book Awards The shortlist for the 2013 Toronto Book Awards has been announced, and it includes some familiar names from the city’s vibrant literary scene. The finalists are: • Kamal Al‐Solaylee, for his memoir, Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes,published by Harper Collins Publishing Ltd. Intolerable tells the story of Al‐Solaylee’s journey from the Middle East to Canada, and his “experiences being gay and leaving his Arab family and culture behind to pursue a life free from religious and social stigmas.” 3 • Patrick Cummins and Shawn Micallef for their annotated book of Toronto photography, Full Frontal T.O., published by Coach House Books.
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