Carolyn Marie Souaid

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Carolyn Marie Souaid
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Photograph taken in 2010 by Monique Dykstra
Born(1959-08-01)August 1, 1959
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupationwriter, editor, educator
LanguageEnglish, French
EducationBachelor, Master of Arts
Alma mater McGill University, Concordia University
Genrepoetry

Carolyn Marie Souaid (born 1 August 1959) is a Canadian poet, educator, publisher and editor. [1]

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Biography

Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, she studied at McGill University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature (1981) and a diploma in Education (1983), and at Concordia University, where she earned a Master of Arts in Creative Writing (1995). Her first poetry collection, Swimming into the Light, won the David McKeen Award for Poetry in 1996. Her books have been nominated for a number of literary awards in Canada including the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Award.

Souaid's work focuses on pivotal moments in Québécois history [2] and on the difficult bridging of worlds (English/French; native/non-native). [3] In 2010, she and longtime poetic collaborator Endre Farkas produced Blood is Blood, a controversial video-poem dealing with the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. [4]

Well known for her activism on the Montreal literary scene, [5] [6] [7] Souaid co-produced Poetry in Motion in 2004 (which brought poems to Montreal buses [8] ) and Circus of Words / Cirque des mots, a multidisciplinary, multilingual cabaret showcasing the "theatre" of poetry. [9] In 2009, she co-founded Poetry Quebec, an online review dedicated to the English language poetry and poets of Quebec. [10] From 2008 to 2011, she served as poetry editor for Signature Editions, one of Canada's top publishers of poetry. [11]

Souaid has lived most of her life in Montreal, except for three years spent teaching in Inuit villages along Quebec's Hudson-Ungava coast in the early 1980s. [12]

Selected works

Poetry

Fiction

Editor (selected publications)

Critical reception

Carolyn Marie Souaid's fourth collection of poetry, Satie's Sad Piano… is a fine achievement in attempting to explain the importance of Pierre Elliott Trudeau - and his passing, five years ago - for the national imagination. … This long poem is perhaps the first serious effort to encompass the nation since Dennie Lee's problematically Ontario centric/Torontonian Civil Elegies appeared in 1868 and 1972 [13]

—  George Elliott Clarke, The Chronicle Herald

References

  1. ↑ "12 or 20 questions: 12 or 20 questions: With Carolyn Marie Souaid". May 2008.
  2. ↑ "Satie's Sad Piano, by Carolyn Marie Souaid". Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  3. ↑ "October Crisis".
  4. ↑ "Duo speak to places cursed by tribal hatreds". Archived from the original on 2012-08-26. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  5. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-01-06.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ↑ "QWF Literary Database of Quebec English-language Authors : Authors: View".
  7. ↑ "missing".
  8. ↑ Sutherland, Anne (April 23, 2004). "Words of a Somali Poet on Montreal Buses". The Gazette.
  9. ↑ "Montreal Mirror : 2006 Year in Review : Spoken Word". Archived from the original on 2012-06-30. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  10. ↑ "The other PQ | the Link". Archived from the original on 2011-08-25. Retrieved 2011-01-06.
  11. ↑ "Signature Editions | About the Press". signature-editions.com.
  12. ↑ Souaid, C.1988. Inuit-controlled School System Clashes With Traditional Lifestyle. Information North: Newsletter of The Arctic Institute of North America 14:1-4.
  13. ↑ George Elliot Clarke. Goodison, Souaid Give Nation Voices. The Chronicle Herald, August 21, 2005.
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