12/8/2022 0 Comments Vallum award winnerJoseph Kidney has published poems in Vallum, Oberon, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, and PRISM international. I’m still very grateful to Mallory Tater and CV2 for this honour.” Winning gave me both a renewed confidence in writing, as well as the ability to pay off some credit card debt. I still remember quite distinctly the three locations in which I discovered that the poem had been longlisted, then shortlisted, then chosen, and the three increasingly unusual surges of elation, not without the sense of having gotten away with something. “Winning this award from CV2 for the poem “Garbage Takeout” reassured me that just because the poem was about garbage didn’t mean that the poem was garbage. "Blythe has created Twoism out of muscle and mirrors, shadow and light, throwing words as though they are knives in a circus act risky, but with steady aim, each word lands sharp and close to the skin.Continuing on with our profiles of past winners of the Foster Poetry Prize, this week we have 2018 winner Joseph Kidney! Read on to learn more about Joseph, what his experience winning the contest taught him about garbage poems, and head to this link to submit your own work by November 1st! Betsy Warland, author of Breathing the Page " Right from the first poem, Blythe pulls you down the rabbit hole of desire. " Blythe is as disarming as dangerous.In every poem, there is the chance you will be caught unprepared "the edgy poetry collection that set minds and hearts afire "Blythe’s poetry deftly mingles humour and hardship to capture the beauty and tragedy of the everyday. "You pick up a poetry book and open the pages and sometimes you are transported. photocopied half-a-dozen poems out of this book and mailed them to my friends "I keep circling back to poems - they go so simply, steadily to your heart " At the heart of Ali Blythe’s courageous debut collection is a bruising search for identity īlythe’s poems are permeable they breathe they create space for identities and expressions that wash away, that are “unable to be,” that are unable to achieve being’s solidity and certainty and don’t really want to anyways. " remind me of that feeling when you look up at the sky and and have this realization of how vast everything is and you feel so small "wry observation and a chaotic wit.a welcome voice in the dark, cleaving and binding of our immaterial desires to our bodies " Twoism is heavily coded with binary and dualisms, strewn with cloaks, masks, animal skins and sick blankets, and rich with literary allusion "Twoism compresses fizzing desire into a staccato mythic-demotic "intelligent and charming, jangly and jarring, moody, dreamy and a little bit deadly "His thoughts stretched wide, longing in between, Blythe illuminates a world both ruined and beautiful "perhaps incurring the most dog-eared pages ever "Blythe's stark, deft poems build a spectacular debut Winner of the Vallum Award for Poetry 2017ĬBC collections from up-and-coming Canadian poets to readĤ9th Shelf most anticipated poetry for springĤ9th Shelf 26 books to celebrate for poetry month “An intimate, attentive, and patiently affecting book that lives up to all of the possibilities of its titleįinalist for 2020 Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize Derek Beaulieu, Calgary Poet Laureate, 2014-2016 “ Hymnswitch wears the good, solid boots of language to trek through the unsendable here of daily decision matthew heinz, author of Entering Transmasculinity “Ali Blythe pierces your skins, awakening perceptions you had allowed to settle under the surface. Writer's Trust Recommended Read by Adam Sol Walrus Top Ten Books of 2019 by Zoe Whittall "I kept handing the book to friends, saying, 'Read this-it’s so smart.' When I finished the last page, I read it again, which is something I almost never do on display in Ali Blythe’s second poetry collection, Hymnswitch "Strategies of paradox, crystalline hermetic eloquences, are. Vallum award winner skin#"You.have been invited into an intimate space, to wear the poet’s skin for a moment, to hold his breath " Hymnswitch.makes an important contribution to the field of trans poetics It’s exciting to see a writer so conscious of building a body of work within and across collections, pursuing not just a set of ideas and concerns but an artistic vision "Blythe’s sense of orchestration is on fullest display…. "With incredible economy of language and dialectical drama at the levels of sentence and caesura, Blythe delivers taut yet expansive hymns from 'the golden-throated era / of the hormone' "Blythe brings a mastery of precision and cadence to bear in creating poems that pulse with emotion, complexity and vulnerability
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