Field Notes by Sharon King-Campbell

Sharon King-Campbell has made the2020CBC Poetry Prize longlistforField Notes.

The winner of the 2020CBCPoetry Prizewill receive $6,000 from theCanada Council for the Arts, have their work published onCBC Booksand have the opportunity to attend a two-week 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.

The shortlist will be announced on Nov. 5and the winner will be announced on Nov. 12.

About Sharon King-Campbell

Sharon King-Campbell is a writer, theatre artist and storyteller. Her writing has appeared in Riddle Fence, WORDand on stages across Newfoundland and Labrador. She holds a BFAin theatre and a Master's degree in creative writing from Memorial University, and is currently pursuing a PhDin English. She was a winner in both the 2019 and 2020 Arts & Letters Awards, and won the 2017 Rhonda Payne Award in recognition of her theatre work. Her first book of poetry, This Is How It Is, will be published in 2021.

Entry in five-ish words

"Nature is bigger than humanity."

The poems' source of inspiration

"I recently took a literary theory course alongside a poetry course. I was introduced to 'ecocriticism' in theory and it leaked into my poetry homework. Since then, it has leaked into almost everything in my life."

First lines

Field Notes

On the fusion of horizons, we find
ourselves blinded by the possible
rising, full of fire, white light refracted
like a peacock's tail. Materiality
spreads a spectrum of energies,
frenetic reds and lazy violets encoded
on our retinas, the texture of linoleum
or beach stone. The peacock tells his own
story. So does the stone. The power of
narrative infused in barren signs.

About the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize

The winner of the 2020CBCPoetry Prizewill receive $6,000 from theCanada Council for the Arts, have their work published onCBC Booksand attend a two-week writing residency at theBanff Centre for the Arts and Creativity. Four finalists will each receive $1,000 from theCanada Council for the Artsand have their work published onCBC Books.

The 2021CBC Nonfiction Prizewill open in January. The 2021CBC Poetry Prizewill open in April.