Recently, the world celebrated William Shakespeare’s 450th birthday. Well, that’s our best guess, anyway, anyone who’s studied Shakespeare will tell you: we only know what day he was christened, so we assume April 23rd is his birthday. Regardless, there were some pretty fun celebrations of the Bard around the world, including “Cakespeare,” a contest hosted byContinue reading “Ophelia and the arrival of spring flowers”
Category Archives: Poetry
2013 Young Buck Poetry Prize
I’m pleased to report that I’m a runner up in Contemporary Verse 2‘s Young Buck Poetry Prize! My sonnet crown “Rapunzel” is forthcoming in their summer 2014 issue. To see the announcement and full list of winners, please click here. In other news, on Wednesday (November 27), I had the opportunity to read from my thesis/manuscript atContinue reading “2013 Young Buck Poetry Prize”
Surprise & poetry
This morning I had the pleasant surprise of discovering that one of the readers for the CBC Poetry Prize competition wrote some lovely things about one of my poems! I mentioned in my last post that, during the countdown to the shortlist announcement, the CBC is posting daily mini-interviews with some of the competition’s readers,Continue reading “Surprise & poetry”
CBC Poetry Prize Longlist 2013
I’m very pleased to report that one of my poems, “Waiting for spring, or something,” has been longlisted for this year’s CBC Poetry Prize! The longlist was announced September 3, and you can find it here. I’m so honoured to be on a list with so many amazing writers, including friend Garth Martens, and the talentedContinue reading “CBC Poetry Prize Longlist 2013”
Ruth Daniell 