A Number of Stunning Attacks by Jessi MacEachern
CBC Books | Posted: October 31, 2018 8:11 PM | Last Updated: November 1, 2018
2018 CBC Poetry Prize longlist
Jessi MacEachern has made the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for A Number of Stunning Attacks.
About Jessi
Jessi MacEachern is a PhD candidate in Études anglaises at the Université de Montréal. 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, PRISM and 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
She is searching for examples to parallel pot lids and dresses To begin with
as I recall she looked a little drunk
About the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize
The winner of the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, will have their work published on CBC Books and will have the opportunity to attend a writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Four finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books.