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New Prizes (against our better judgement); poet laureate shenanigans; 2025 poets rejoice! Let me summarize what could be an otherwise really complicated announcement. A few new things are happening: 1. The Phoenix Poetry Prize is introducing two NEW, additional prizes to be awarded in 2027. 2. The Phoenix Poetry Prize is honoured to collaborate with THE POET LAUREATE PODCAST 3. The aforementioned two things will create opportunities for 2025 Canadian poets / poets publishing in Canada to be awarded recognition that they deserved for their hard work and words this year. Okay now onto the complicated part. What does this all mean??? The Phoenix Poetry Prize is introducing two NEW prizes to be awarded in 2027.
ABOUT The Poet Laureate Podcast
NIX AWARD JUDGE: rob mclennan
Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of some fifty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles include On Beauty: stories (University of Alberta Press, 2024), the poetry collections the book of sentences (University of Calgary Press, 2025) and edgeless (Caitlin Press, 2026), and the anthology groundworks: the best of the third decade of above/ground press 2013-2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023). The current Artistic Director of VERSeFest: Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival, he spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta.
PHLOREATE AWARD JUDGE: Drew Lavigne
Drew Lavigne is the anglophone Poet Laureate of Moncton, New Brunswick. A member of the editorial board at The Fiddlehead and co-host of the Attic Owl reading series. Recent work has appeared in Vallum, Visual Arts News, Tourniquet Magazine, and with Éditions Rhizome. He translated the collection Poems Twofold with Georgette LeBlanc and is the author of Evening Dress with Anstruther Press.
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