bpNichol Chapbook Poetry Award

For information on the upcoming bpNichol Chapbook Award Night, please see the flier attached at the bottom of this page.

Date: Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Location: Augusta House
152 Augusta Ave.2nd floor
(416) 977-8881

The bpNichol Chapbook Award is a project of Phoenix Community Works Foundation. Since 1973, PCWF has been dedicated to fostering healthy, sustainable communities and supporting creativity and the arts. To find out more about PCWF, please visit www.pcwf.ca

The Chapbook Award was established in 1984, under the guidance of noted Canadian poet bpNichol who was also one of the founding members of PCWF. The award was established in order to inspire, encourage and support Canadian poets and the smaller Canadian presses that ordinarily publish chapbooks. In 1988, after the tragic death of bpNichol, the award was renamed in memory of the prolific writer and performer.

This year, $2000 is awarded to the best poetry chapbook written in English, published in Canada. The deadline is March 30, 2009. In previous years, the winner was simply notified and the Award amount was mailed to them. But in 2007, for the 1st time, the winner – Jake Kennedy for Hazard - was honored at a Celebratory Dinner & Fundraiser.

Since the Award was first established, the Award money has been provided by PCWF. However, this year PCWF has the honor of having selected the first bpNichol Chapbook Committee whose goal it will be to raise both the profile & prestige of the Award.

Since its inception, the award has supported and recognized some of Canada’s best poets. Past winners include George Bowering, Susan Musgrave, Paul Dutton, Lisa Robertson and Barry McKinnon. It has also been a great opportunity for new, young emerging poets whose first publications are often in chapbook form.

WINNERS OF THE BPNICHOL CHAPBOOK AWARD
2009
Gary Barwin, Inverting the Deer.

Sandra Ridley, Lift: Ghazals for C., JackPine Press, Saskatoon, SK.

2008
Jay Millar, Lack Lyrics & Cara Benson, Quantum Chaos & Poems.

2007
Jake Kennedy, Hazard (information on Hazard available below in the attached pdf)

2006
Steven Ross Smith, Hilary Clark, Betsy Rosenwald: Pliny’s Knickers

2005
Lisa Robertson, Rousseau’s Boat

2004
Susan Clark, as lit x: the syntax of adoration (Friends of Runcible)
Barry McKinnon, Bolivia/Peru (Gorse Press)

2003
Allan Brown, Imagines (Leaf Press)
Stan Dragland, 12 Bars (Running the Goat Books)

2002
Robert Kroetsch, The New World and Finding It (Mother Tongue Press)

2001
M.W. Field, The Sapphire Morpho

2000
Hilary Mosher, Buri Frau Rontgen’s Hand (Published by Outlaw Editions)

1999
P.K. Page, Alphabetical

1998
Nicole Marcotic, More Excess

1997
Lance Blomgren, Liner and Manual for Beginners

1996
Janice Williamson, A Boy Named

1995
Barry McKinnon, Arrythmia

1994
Mathew Remski, Organon Vocis Orgnalis: bk.II of Aerial Sonography

1993
George Bowering, Do Sink

1992
George Bowering Quarters & Theresa Kishkan, Morning Glory

1991
Susan Musgrave, In The Small Hours of The Rain

1990
Mary Howes, QHS

1989
Paul Dutton, Additives

1988
Robin Blaser, The Faerie Queen and the Park
Nicole Brossard, Sous La Langue/Under Tongue

1987
David Donnell, The Natural History of Water

1986
Mark Laba, The Mac Bolan Poems

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