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Eve Joseph (born 1953) is a Canadian poet and author. She is the author of The Startled Heart (2004), which was shortlisted for the 2005 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Quarrels, which won the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize [1] and was shortlisted for the 2019 ReLit Award for poetry. [2]
Joseph grew up in North Vancouver, British Columbia, and now lives in Victoria. She is married to poet Patrick Friesen. [3]
Patrick Frank Friesen is a Canadian author born in Steinbach, Manitoba, primarily known for his poetry and stage plays beginning in the 1970s.
Janine Louise Zwicky is a Canadian philosopher, poet, essayist, and musician. She was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2022.
Dorothy Kathleen May Livesay, was a Canadian poet who twice won the Governor General's Award in the 1940s, and was "senior woman writer in Canada" during the 1970s and 1980s.
Susan (Sue) Goyette is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Karen Solie is a Canadian poet.
Aislinn Hunter is a Canadian poetry and fiction author.
Kaie Kellough is a Canadian poet and novelist. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, raised in Calgary, Alberta, and in 1998 moved to Montreal, Quebec, where he lives.
Ian Williams is a Canadian poet and fiction writer.
Jen Currin is an American/Canadian poet and fiction writer. Born and raised in Portland, Oregon, she is currently based in Vancouver, British Columbia and teaches creative writing at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. Her 2010 collection The Inquisition Yours won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry in 2011, and was shortlisted for that year's Lambda Literary Award, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and ReLit Award. Her 2014 collection School was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award, the Dorothy Livesay Prize, and a ReLit Award.
Souvankham Thammavongsa is a Laotian Canadian poet and short story writer. In 2019, she won an O. Henry Award for her short story, "Slingshot", which was published in Harper's Magazine, and in 2020 her short story collection How to Pronounce Knife won the Giller Prize.
Philip Kevin Paul is a Canadian poet.
Russell Thornton is a Canadian poet. His book House Built of Rain (2003) was a shortlisted nominee for the 2004 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the 2004 ReLit Award. His collection Birds, Metals, Stones and Rain (2013) was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2013 Governor General's Awards, the 2014 Raymond Souster Award and the 2014 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. His collection The Hundred Lives (2014) was a shortlisted nominee for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Kayla Czaga is a Canadian poet, who won the Gerald Lampert Award in 2015 for her debut collection For Your Safety Please Hold On. The book was also a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry, the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Canadian Authors Association's Emerging Writer Award.
Susan Holbrook is a Canadian poet, whose collection Throaty Wipes was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2016 Governor General's Awards.
Jordan Abel is a Nisga'a poet who lives and works in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Ali Blythe is a Canadian poet and editor. His debut poetry collection Twoism was a shortlisted finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2016, and he was a finalist for the 2017 Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ writers.
Stephen Collis is a Canadian poet and professor. Collis is the author of several books of poetry, including On the Material and three parts of the on-going “Barricades Project”: Anarchive, The Commons, and To the Barricades. He is also the author of three books of non-fiction: Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten , Dispatches from the Occupation, and Phyllis Webb and the Common Good. In 2011, he won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for the collection On the Material. He wrote Mine in 2001, Anarchive in 2005 and The Commons in 2008, and was previously shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Award in 2006 for Anarchive.
Chantal Gibson is a Canadian writer, poet, artist and educator. Her 2019 poetry collection How She Read won the 2020 Pat Lowther Award, the 2020 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize at the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, and was a shortlisted 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize finalist. Gibson’s art and writing confronts colonialism, cultural erasure, and representations of Black women in Western culture.
Rhonda Ganz is a Canadian poet and illustrator from Victoria, British Columbia, whose debut poetry collection Frequent, Small Loads of Laundry won the 2018 ReLit Award for poetry.
Major poetry related events which took place worldwide during 2019 are outlined below under different sections. This includes poetry books released during the year in different languages, major literary awards, poetry festivals and events, besides anniversaries and deaths of renowned poets etc. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
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