I’m ambivalent about most forms of poetry contests, at best. But the Canadian Broadcasting Company’s Poetry Face-Off at least seems likely to expand the number of people who are apt to hear a poem being read aloud. And one of the finalists this year is Christian Bök, whose work will be familiar to many of the readers here. Follow the link above to listen and to vote.
Speaking of awards, Darren Wershler-Henry of Coach House Press was awarded first place for the design of a Canadian book of poetry, Mark Truscott’s marvelous Said Like Reeds or Things by the Alcuin Society, an organization devoted to all aspects of fine press printing.
It must be very interesting to live in a country where work on this order isn’t automatically marginalized as it is in the
