The almost 4 dozen from hundreds of CBC Poetry’s longlist for Canada Writes includes “Sandbagging the River Before the Flood” by Stephen Brockwell (Ottawa, ON), “Blue at the Heart of Being” by Lorna Crozier (N. Saanic, BC), “The Archeologist and the Roofer” by Barry Dempster (Holland Landing, ON), “A Tuition of Time” by Susan Elmslie (Montreal, ON), “Settler Education” by Laurie D. Graham (London, ON), “Bindled Back: Three Travel Poems” by Jacob McArthur Mooney (Toronto, ON), “Blow ye Winds” by Ruth Pierson (Toronto, ON), As we Bend” and “Three Poems” by Emily Nilsen (Nelson, BC).
Sept 8th they announce the shortlist.