CBC Poetry Prize: 2 Quebecers make the longlist
CBC News | Posted: November 3, 2015 5:33 PM | Last Updated: November 3, 2015
Larissa Andrusyshyn and Branka Petrovic among 25 poets under consideration
Branka Petrovic and Larissa Andrusyshyn are the two Quebecers longlisted for this year's CBC Poetry Prize.
Both live in Montreal.
Petrovic, whose entry is entitled Mechanics of a Gaze, completed her MA in English literature and creative writing at Concordia University. She received her BA in English literature and philosophy from McGill University.
Her poems have appeared in Contemporary Verse 2, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review and The Fiddlehead, among others.
Her work was longlisted for the 2012 CBC Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the 2013 Gwendolyn MacEwen Poetry Competition.
First Lines
Inverted, her eyes are melancholic trance,
incarcerated reverie. Reversed, her lips:
lapsed laurels. Her mouth ajar as if to utter
quarantine. Patterns of solitude
laser out of her gaze, expose
the inside of her iris red.
Andrusyshyn's entry is entitled The Radium Girls.
Her first poetry collection, Mammoth (DC Books, 2010), was shortlisted for the Quebec Writers' Federation First Book Prize and the Kobzar Literary Award. Her poems have appeared in CV2, carte blanche and Encore Literary Magazine.
Andrusyshyn runs creative writing workshops for at-risk youth.
Her second collection, Proof (DC Books), was released last spring.
First lines
First lines
The trouble with girls is that you have to be one,
falling in an endless loop or grounded,
like a cement truck, spinning in place.
We harness a lambent beam on camel hair.
Among cure-alls and hayburners,
we are held together by our own gravity like stars.
Wayward, we poke through the night
falling in an endless loop or grounded,
like a cement truck, spinning in place.
We harness a lambent beam on camel hair.
Among cure-alls and hayburners,
we are held together by our own gravity like stars.
Wayward, we poke through the night