Tanis MacDonald has made the 2022 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for Last Seen With Crow.

The shortlist will be announced on Nov. 17 and the winner will be announced on Nov. 24.

If you're interested in the CBC Literary Prizes, the CBC Nonfiction Prize opens in January and the CBC Poetry Prize opens in April.

Tanis MacDonald is the author of Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female, Mobile: poems and five other books. She won the Open Seasons Awards for Nonfiction and the Bliss Carman Prize for Poetry. She lives in Waterloo, Ont., on traditional Haudenosaunee territory, and is originally from the Prairies. Tanis is a professor in the department of English and film studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, and she hosts the podcast Watershed Writers.

MacDonald previously made the CBC Poetry Prize longlist in 2021 for Walking in Space.

"Following myself back to a beloved lake."

"I have been thinking myself back to the Prairies lately, recalling early experiences of the natural world, especially as they represented escape and independence. My childhood consciousness is happily imbedded there, staying on that lakeshore and mostly oblivious to the adult me who has to take the time to track her down."

She and I learned to talk
beneath the waves, in peaty
waters that reddened
our eyes. Which lake among
the hundred thousand? The sky
streamed by above. She collected
wood for the fire she was always
tending. Knots popped in the flames.
The sky is how I remember: rolling
waves and cold taste of wind,
hair blown across my eyes.

*
Last seen: girl
following a crow.

The winner of the 2022 CBC Poetry Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, have their work published on CBC Books and attend a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for the 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.

The 2023 CBC Nonfiction Prize will open in January. The 2023 CBC Poetry Prize will open in April.