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/Descant/ is pleased to announce the Short List for the 2009 Winston Collins/Descant Prize for the Best Canadian Poem.
/Descant/ received well over 100 submissions from talented voices across the country. Judges for this year are: Nora Kelly and Eric Wright.
The 15 finalists are:
*
David Bourgeois
Geoffrey Cook
Joan Crate
Jennifer Footman
Eleanor Gang
Michael Kleiza
M. Travis Lane
John B. Lee
Shane Neilson
Marilyn Gear Pilling
Kathryn Rogers
Norma Rowen
Cora Siré
Elena Vardon
Christine Walde*

This event will take place on Friday, February 20th at *PageWave Graphics* – 533 College Street, Suite 402 (corner of College and Euclid, three blocks west of Bathurst) in Toronto from 6-8 pm. Last year, the party they held for us was amazing, so if you can make it don't miss out on the poetry event of the season!
The Winner will be awarded $1000, and two Honourary Mentions will be awarded $250 each. This prize has been established in memory of Winston Collins, writer and enthusiastic teacher of literature at the universities of Cincinnati, Princeton and Toronto. The prize perpetuates his remarkable talent for encouraging self-expression through writing.


For more information about this prize and event, visit:
http://www.descant.ca/contest.html
Watch for the winning poems, highlighted in /Descant 146 /(our Fall 2009 issue)!
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

/Descant/ is pleased to announce the Short List for the 2009 Winston Collins/Descant Prize for the Best Canadian Poem.
/Descant/ received well over 100 submissions from talented voices across the country. Judges for this year are: Nora Kelly and Eric Wright.
The 15 finalists are:
*
David Bourgeois
Geoffrey Cook
Joan Crate
Jennifer Footman
Eleanor Gang
Michael Kleiza
M. Travis Lane
John B. Lee
Shane Neilson
Marilyn Gear Pilling
Kathryn Rogers
Norma Rowen
Cora Siré
Elena Vardon
Christine Walde*

This event will take place on Friday, February 20th at *PageWave Graphics* – 533 College Street, Suite 402 (corner of College and Euclid, three blocks west of Bathurst) in Toronto from 6-8 pm. Last year, the party they held for us was amazing, so if you can make it don't miss out on the poetry event of the season!
The Winner will be awarded $1000, and two Honourary Mentions will be awarded $250 each. This prize has been established in memory of Winston Collins, writer and enthusiastic teacher of literature at the universities of Cincinnati, Princeton and Toronto. The prize perpetuates his remarkable talent for encouraging self-expression through writing.


For more information about this prize and event, visit:
http://www.descant.ca/contest.html
Watch for the winning poems, highlighted in /Descant 146 /(our Fall 2009 issue)!
_________________
---------------------

Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[anna]

DESCANT Magazine is pleased to announce its 2009 Winston Collins / Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem $1,000 winner!


WINNER:
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“Billy Collins Interviewed on Stage at Chautauqua” by Marilyn Gear Pilling (Hamilton, ON)

ABOUT THE WINNER – Marilyn Gear Pilling began writing in 1991. She was featured in Oberon’s Coming Attractions series in 1994. She is the author of two collections of fiction: My Nose Is A Gherkin Pickle Gone Wrong (Cormorant, ‘96) and The Roseate Spoonbill Of Happiness (Boheme, ‘02), and three collections of poetry: The Field Next To Love (Black Moss, ‘02), The Life of the Four Stomachs (Black Moss, ‘06) and Cleavage: A Life In Breasts (Black Moss, ‘07).


HONOURARY MENTIONS:
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“In a Glass Darkly” by M. Travis Lane (Fredericton, NB)
“Naming Uncle Bridges’ Farms” by Shane Neilson (Guelph, ON)



-----( STATEMENT )-----------------------------------------------------------------

Poet Marilyn Gear Pilling is the winner of the 2009 Winston Collins/Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem. The $1,000 prize recognizing excellence in Canadian poetry was presented to Pilling last night by Descant Editor-in-Chief Karen Mulhallen at a celebratory reception at PageWave Graphics, in Toronto.

The Collins Prize commemorates the memory of Winston Collins, writer and enthusiastic teacher of literature at the universities of Cincinnati, Princeton and Toronto. The annual prize perpetuates his remarkable talent for encouraging self-expression through writing. The response to the third year of this competition exceeded expectations, with well over 100 submissions coming in from across Canada by first time and seasoned poets alike, attesting to the quality and diversity of poetry in Canada.

The judges for this year’s award — Nora Kelly and Eric Wright — were struck by Pilling’s winning poem “Billy Collins Interviewed On Stage at Chautauqua”, and praised it for its comic maturity. “Here, there is comedy in the detail: zinging precision of language, little IEDs lying in wait for the reader. There is also comedy of shape. The poem swells like a child’s balloon, filling with the poet’s rage until it reaches maximum size with the superbly inflated phrase, ‘riding the currents of institutionalized sublimity’. Then the poet lets go, and the balloon goes flying through room, collapsing with a rude noise as Collins leaves the stage.”

Also recognized at Friday’s announcement were Fredericton poet M. Travis Lane, and Guelph’s Shane Neilson, who each received Collins Prize Honourable Mentions and $250 awards.

In Shane Neilson’s poem “Naming Uncle Bridges’ Farms,” the measurement of time skillfully shifts from the concrete and familial to the abstract and concrete. The judges were impressed by how Neilson “laments loss but also captures the illusion of dominion”. Neilson’s “Exterminate My Heart” came out with Frog Hollow in 2008, and a new book of poems entitled Meniscus will be released this year by Biblioasis.

M. Travis Lane’s piece “In A Glass Darkly” takes “a daring leap from the fireside to the inferno. We look into darkness but are blind to everything except our own reflections, as Dido, dark within, sees only herself in the flames”. Lane has published eleven books, most recently
The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand from Sir Wilfred Laurier University Press. Her twelfth book, The All-Nighter’s Radio, from Guernica Editions is forthcoming.


All three chosen poems will be published in Descant’s Fall 2009 issue (#146).


For more information about the Winston Collins/Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem
and Descant magazine, please visit: http://www.descant.ca


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MEDIA CONTACT:
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Mark Laliberte, Managing Editor
e: [email protected] / ph: 416.593.2557
_________________
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

DESCANT Magazine is pleased to announce its 2009 Winston Collins / Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem $1,000 winner!


WINNER:
------------------------------------------
“Billy Collins Interviewed on Stage at Chautauqua” by Marilyn Gear Pilling (Hamilton, ON)

ABOUT THE WINNER – Marilyn Gear Pilling began writing in 1991. She was featured in Oberon’s Coming Attractions series in 1994. She is the author of two collections of fiction: My Nose Is A Gherkin Pickle Gone Wrong (Cormorant, ‘96) and The Roseate Spoonbill Of Happiness (Boheme, ‘02), and three collections of poetry: The Field Next To Love (Black Moss, ‘02), The Life of the Four Stomachs (Black Moss, ‘06) and Cleavage: A Life In Breasts (Black Moss, ‘07).


HONOURARY MENTIONS:
------------------------------------------
“In a Glass Darkly” by M. Travis Lane (Fredericton, NB)
“Naming Uncle Bridges’ Farms” by Shane Neilson (Guelph, ON)



-----( STATEMENT )-----------------------------------------------------------------

Poet Marilyn Gear Pilling is the winner of the 2009 Winston Collins/Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem. The $1,000 prize recognizing excellence in Canadian poetry was presented to Pilling last night by Descant Editor-in-Chief Karen Mulhallen at a celebratory reception at PageWave Graphics, in Toronto.

The Collins Prize commemorates the memory of Winston Collins, writer and enthusiastic teacher of literature at the universities of Cincinnati, Princeton and Toronto. The annual prize perpetuates his remarkable talent for encouraging self-expression through writing. The response to the third year of this competition exceeded expectations, with well over 100 submissions coming in from across Canada by first time and seasoned poets alike, attesting to the quality and diversity of poetry in Canada.

The judges for this year’s award — Nora Kelly and Eric Wright — were struck by Pilling’s winning poem “Billy Collins Interviewed On Stage at Chautauqua”, and praised it for its comic maturity. “Here, there is comedy in the detail: zinging precision of language, little IEDs lying in wait for the reader. There is also comedy of shape. The poem swells like a child’s balloon, filling with the poet’s rage until it reaches maximum size with the superbly inflated phrase, ‘riding the currents of institutionalized sublimity’. Then the poet lets go, and the balloon goes flying through room, collapsing with a rude noise as Collins leaves the stage.”

Also recognized at Friday’s announcement were Fredericton poet M. Travis Lane, and Guelph’s Shane Neilson, who each received Collins Prize Honourable Mentions and $250 awards.

In Shane Neilson’s poem “Naming Uncle Bridges’ Farms,” the measurement of time skillfully shifts from the concrete and familial to the abstract and concrete. The judges were impressed by how Neilson “laments loss but also captures the illusion of dominion”. Neilson’s “Exterminate My Heart” came out with Frog Hollow in 2008, and a new book of poems entitled Meniscus will be released this year by Biblioasis.

M. Travis Lane’s piece “In A Glass Darkly” takes “a daring leap from the fireside to the inferno. We look into darkness but are blind to everything except our own reflections, as Dido, dark within, sees only herself in the flames”. Lane has published eleven books, most recently
The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand from Sir Wilfred Laurier University Press. Her twelfth book, The All-Nighter’s Radio, from Guernica Editions is forthcoming.


All three chosen poems will be published in Descant’s Fall 2009 issue (#146).


For more information about the Winston Collins/Descant Prize for Best Canadian Poem
and Descant magazine, please visit: http://www.descant.ca


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MEDIA CONTACT:
---------------------
Mark Laliberte, Managing Editor
e: [email protected] / ph: 416.593.2557
_________________
---------------------

Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com