{"id":14991,"date":"2023-02-15T19:52:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/?post_type=contest&p=14991"},"modified":"2023-02-15T19:52:35","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T14:52:35","slug":"archibald-lampman-2020","status":"publish","type":"contest","link":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/contest\/archibald-lampman-award\/archibald-lampman-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Archibald Lampman 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Archibald Lampman Award recognizes an outstanding book of English-language poetry by an author living in the National Capital Region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The jury for the 2020 award were Lucas Crawford, Robin Richardson, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Mad Long Emotion” by Ben Ladouceur<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This collection is brimming with lines full of deft, subtle music, practically vibrating with resonant meaning, yet the language is deceivingly colloquial: \u201cIf I pedal too fast my bike sings a song about brokenness.\u201d These poems are vulnerable without sentimentality, unafraid of the simply joy of being \u201con my second coffee and a bus and I love the whole world.\u201d Ladouceur\u2019s irrepressible energy, unstinting attention to the seemingly minute details of his environment, and his loving care of the bodies that populate the collection will keep readers engaged from start to finish. [2021 Judges]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ben Ladouceur <\/a><\/strong>is the author of nine chapbooks, including bpNichol Award nominee Lime Kiln Quay Road <\/em>(above\/ground press), and the collections Mad Long Emotion<\/em> and Otter <\/em>(Coach House Books), which was named a best book of 2015 by the National Post<\/em>, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and awarded the Gerald Lampert Memorial Prize for best poetry debut in Canada. He has published poems in Poetry<\/em>, The Awl<\/em>, and The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry<\/em>, and short fiction in Maisonneuve<\/em>, The Malahat Review<\/em>, and Prairie Fire<\/em>, among other publications. He was prose editor for Arc Poetry Magazine <\/em>from 2015 to 2018, and he received the Writers\u2019 Trust of Canada Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBTQ Writers in 2018. He lives in Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2020 Shortlist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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“The Landscape That Isn’t There” by Mary Lee Bragg<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Landscape That Isn\u2019t There<\/em> offers a lyric look through family history, \u201ca prairie blizzard kept the doctor away \/ and her husband \u2026 heated the china serving platter \/ and put the baby there to keep her warm.\u201d The voices and their imagery, clear and confident, are wrought from facing mortality, facing the reality that \u201cmasked men will \/ set my breasts aside, to break my sternum \/ and touch my heart,\u201d and how \u201c[r]ecovery is a chemistry experiment.\u201d Bragg\u2019s collection asks for acknowledgement, wants us to see that \u201cI\u2019ve been through so much.\u201d It invites us to sit within the trauma of near-death but to also recognize the resilience that can come from survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Lee Bragg<\/a><\/strong> grew up in Calgary and now lives in Ottawa. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in literary magazines and ezines in Canada, the United States and Cuba, in the novel Shooting Angels,<\/em> and in two chapbooks, How Women Work<\/em> and Winter Music<\/em>. The Landscape That Isn\u2019t There<\/em> is her first full-length poetry collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“From Turtle Island to Gaza” by David Groulx<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Groulx\u2019s collection articulates the \u201clong execution\u201d shared by the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island and Palestinians in Gaza. These to-the-bone, potent poems sing the pain of \u201cthe settlers \/ live there now \/ painting pictures \/ writing stories \/ our lives are \/ silent\u201d; the persistent, violent irony that \u201c[w]e have become aliens \/ strangers \/ outsiders \/ foreigners \/ unknown \/ in our own land \/ other.\u201d There is, also, a reminder for tender resiliency: \u201cWhen we speak of freedom \/ we must also speak of our freedom \/ to be kind \/ to be just \/ and to be in love.\u201d From Turtle Island to Gaza<\/em> knows that the colonial experience is a global one. Groulx\u2019s hope, that through these poems \u201cwe find that we, colonized peoples, are not alone,\u201d is very well-met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Groulx<\/a><\/strong> lives in Vanier, Ontario and was raised in the mining community of Elliot Lake. He is proud of his Aboriginal roots\u2014Ojibwe Indian and French Canadian. His poetry has appeared in over 160 publications in 16 countries. He is the author of 13 books of poetry including Wabigoon River Poems (Kegedonce, 2015) and The Windigo Chronicles<\/em> (BookLand Press, 2016). His work has appeared most recently in Contemporary Verse 2<\/em>, Transmotion<\/em>, The Muse<\/em>, Rabbit: A Journal for Non-Fiction Poetry<\/em>, and The Stonecoast Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Other 2020 Nominees<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Book<\/th>Poet<\/th>Publisher<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Footprints of Dark Energy<\/strong><\/td>Henry Beissel<\/td>Guernica Editions<\/td><\/tr>
Cursed Objects<\/strong><\/td>Jason Christie<\/td>Coach House Books<\/td><\/tr>
Because I Can<\/strong><\/td>Hanieh Khoshkhou<\/td>Peacock Press<\/td><\/tr>
A halt, which is empty<\/strong><\/td>rob mclennan<\/td>Mansfield Press<\/td><\/tr>
We Were Like Everyone Else<\/strong><\/td>Ken Victor<\/td>Cormorant Books<\/td><\/tr>
Insult to the Brain<\/strong><\/td>Nicola Vulpe<\/td>Guernica Editions<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Arc<\/em> is grateful for the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Ottawa, as well as many individual supporters. For further information contact Arc Poetry Magazine <\/em>at managingeditor@arcpoetry.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Archibald Lampman Award recognizes an outstanding book of English-language poetry by an author living in the National Capital Region. The jury for the 2020 award were Lucas Crawford, Robin Richardson, and Douglas Walbourne-Gough. 2020 Winner “Mad Long Emotion” by Ben Ladouceur This collection is brimming with lines full of deft, subtle music, practically vibrating with resonant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":11423,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contest\/14991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contest"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/contest"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contest\/14991\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contest\/11423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}