Laura Matwichuk has made the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize longlist for The Limits.

The shortlist will be announced on Nov. 16 and the winner will be announced on Nov. 23.

Laura Matwichuk is the author of Near Miss. Her poems have appeared in literary journals in Canada and the U.S. and in The Best Canadian Poetry in English. She was a finalist for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and shortlisted for Arc Poetry Magazine's Poem of the Year.

"Motherhood, time, alienation, attention, limits."

"After becoming a mother myself, I wanted to write about inhabiting the space of early motherhood — how it suddenly reconfigures time and introduces new limits and parameters."

You are just beginning.
I lower you into shallow jade water,
lay you down in a luke-warm field.

The winner of the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a writing residency and have their work published on CBC Books. Four finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books.

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