A Number of Stunning Attacks by Jessi MacEachern

Jessi MacEachern has made the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for A Number of Stunning Attacks.

• 30 writers make longlist for the 2018CBC Poetry Prize

About Jessi

Jessi MacEachern is a PhD candidate in tudes anglaises at the Universit de Montral. Her article, The Feminist Poet Re-Creates the Soundscape: The Excessive Noise of Lisa Robertson and Rachel Zolf, is available in Studies in Canadian Literature. Her poetry has previously appeared in Vallum, Canthius, MuseMedusa, PRISMand CV2.

Entry in five-ish words

The violent intimacies of intoxication.

The poem's source of inspiration

"This long poem is a revision of my Master's thesis, in which I created lyric portraits of women who were living and re-living daily traumas. In this 're-vision' in which my own early work becomes the source text for a conceptual practice I blur the lines between any singular 'woman'and the collective body of 'women.'"

First lines

If she began to recount her early years

"She has about her a terrible aversion to leaving the house "
She is searching for examples to parallel pot lids and dresses To begin with

as I recall she looked a little drunk

About the 2018CBCPoetry Prize

The winner of the 2018CBCPoetry Prizewill receive$6,000 from theCanada Council for the Arts, will have their work published onCBC Booksandwill have the opportunity to attend a writing residency attheBanff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Four finalists will each receive $1,000 from theCanada Council for the Artsand have their work published onCBC Books.