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| Photo courtesy of Malahat Review |
This year's winner of
The Fiddlehead's Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem
Kim Trainor has also won
The Malahat Review's 2013 Long Poem Prize! Of her poem and of poetry in general, she says in an interview on
The Malahat's website, "I like the idea of a poem as an artifact that goes out into the world like a coat or a bicycle or a lens that helps us to transform the material world and influences our interactions with others." You can read the full interview
here.
Trainor certainly has had an excellent spring, which has also seen her place in
The Antigonish Review's Great Blue Heron contest as well. Congratulations Kim!
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Fiddlehead contributors Linda Besner, Stewart Cole, and David Seymour (who was also most recently one of our contest judges) are embarking on the 4th annual Fish Quill Poetry Boat Tour, a ten day poetry and music tour down the Grand River in southwestern Ontario. This year's tour takes place June 13-23 and will see the poetic paddlers travel from Elora to Six Nations of the Grand River Territory, camping along the river and performing in several small communities along the way.
More information can be found on the
indiegogo campaign they've set up to help fund their travel, camping, food, and promotion costs.
