2014 CBC Poetry Prize longlist announced

Thirty-eight Canadian writersare on the longlist for the 2014 CBC Poetry Prize.

One of them will walk away with the Grand Prize: $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, publication in Air Canada's enRoute magazine, and a writing residency at The Banff Centre. Four other finalists will receive $1,000 each.

The longlisted works of poetry are (in alphabetical order by author):

• "Lady Fallen to Earth" by Julia Aleynikova (New Westminster, BC)
• "Fulcrum, Too" by Lori Armstrong (Minden, ON)
• "I am & C: The Gilbert White Poems" by Julie Berry (St. Thomas, ON)
• "Sandbagging the River Before the Flood" by Stephen Brockwell (Ottawa, ON)
• "The Breaks" by Susan Buis (Knutsford, BC)
• "Passage" by Karla Cornett (Kawartha Lakes, ON)
• "Kids" by Mark Callanan (St. John's, NL)
• "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)
• "Black Tulips: A Family Reunion" by Heiderose Garnett (Kelowna, BC)
• "A Windless December Day" by Surya Govender (Vancouver, BC)
• "Settler Education" by Laurie D. Graham (London, ON)
• "Wolf" by Keith Hunt (Sarnia, ON)
• "Improvisations" by Jim Joyce (Pointe Claire, QC)
• "Coda" by Basma Kavanagh (Brandon, MB)
• "Burnt Pot, Riverbank, Indifferent Sky" by Cynthia Woodman Kerkham (Victoria, BC)
• "Rooms" by Katherine Lawrence (Regina, SK)
• "Before We Knew Our Loss" by Sharon Lax (Deux-Montagnes, QC)
• "Two poems: On Juvenile Delinquency and Unbending" by Annick MacAskill (London, ON)
• "Tar Swan" by David Martin (Calgary, AB)
• "Four Meditations on Edward Burtynksy" by Emily McGiffin (York, ON)
• "Washing out the Horse's Mouth" by Andy McGuire (Grand Bend, ON)
• "Magic Van and Self-Portrait as Archaic Torso" by Steve McOrmond (Toronto, ON)
• "Bindled Back: Three Travel Poems" by Jacob McArthur Mooney (Toronto, ON)
• "Coyote Medicine/Medicine Coyote" by Alessandra Naccarato (Toronto, ON)
• "City with Animals" by Jim Nason (Toronto, ON)
• "As we Bend" by Emily Nilsen (Nelson, BC)
• "Three Poems" by Emily Nilsen (Nelson, BC)
• "My Purple Daughter" by Candice O'Grady (Toronto, ON)
• "Blow ye Winds" by Ruth Pierson (Toronto, ON)
• "Winter's Passing" by Leena Rahusaar (Uxbridge, ON)
• "The Art of Weaving" by Harold Rhenisch (Vernon, BC)
• "Go by Contraries" by Robin Richardson (Mississauga, ON)
• "Keying in the Promise" by Linda Rogers (Victoria, BC)
• "Chihuly's Mille Fiori" by Ellie Sawatzky (Vancouver, BC)
• "The Boy Next Door" by Ellie Sawatzky (Vancouver, BC)
• "St. Rita; Epilogue; A Haiku" by Paddy Scott (Trenton, ON)
• "One Afternoon a Woman" by Evelyn Tan (Ottawa, ON)
• "Peredelkino 1956-1960" by Kim Trainor (Vancouver, BC)

The readers for the 2014 CBC Poetry Prize were Jordan Abel, Jenna Butler, Margaret Christakos, Brad Cran, Cyril Dabydeen, Marilyn Gear-Pilling, Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Jason Guriel, Tanis Rideout and Matthew Tierney.

The winner of the 2014 CBC Poetry Prize was announced on Monday, September 22. Click here to find out who won.