Gauntlet by Juliane Okot Bitek
CBC Books | Posted: October 31, 2018 8:02 PM | Last Updated: November 1, 2018
2018 CBC Poetry Prize longlist
Juliane Okot Bitek has made the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for Gauntlet.
About Juliane
Juliane Okot Bitek is the author of 100 Days and Sublime: Lost Words. 100 Days was a finalist for the 2017 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the 2017 Alberta Book Awards and the 2017 Canadian Authors Award for Poetry. It won the 2017 IndieFab Book of the Year Award for poetry and the 2017 Glenna Lushei Prize for African Poetry. Juliane lives on the unceded, ancestral and traditional lands of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people, in Vancouver.
Entry in five-ish words
Party in the footnotes.
The poem's source of inspiration
"A journey to reclaim the footnotes as a space for joy, beauty, and free expression."
First lines
¹ this is a poem for Our own self
² let's go where neither of us has gone before & let's go see what's what
³ the right write let's go write the right stuff the write rites the right wrongs write out the right lies of the archive let's rite the forgotten those determined by who of us you disappeared
² let's go where neither of us has gone before & let's go see what's what
³ the right write let's go write the right stuff the write rites the right wrongs write out the right lies of the archive let's rite the forgotten those determined by who of us you disappeared
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.