Emerging Scholars, Redux: Author â John Barton
May 12, 2021
For the Boy with the Eyes of the Virgin: Selected Poems,
Polari, Seminal: The Anthology of Canadaâs Gay-Male Poets,
We Are Not Avatars: Essays, Memoirs, Manifestos, and
The Essential Douglas LePan, which won a 2020 eLit Award. In 2020, he published
Lost Family: A Memoir (a book of sonnets) with Signal Editions and edited
The Essential Derk Wynand for The Porcupineâs Quill. He lives in Victoria, BC, where he is the cityâs first queer poet laureate.
His poem âWhat We Live Forâ can be read on our website at https://canlit.ca/article/what-we-live-for/.
ReLit continues month-long celebration by announcing 2019 winners
ReLit, the 20-year-old prize honouring books published by independent presses, continues its month-long marathon of awards with the announcement of the 2019 winners. Though ReLit took the past four years off, the prize is celebrating its return under new executive director Katherine Alexandra Harvey by honouring books from the years it missed.
Winners were named in three categories: poetry, short fiction, and novels. The full 2019 shortlists, representing work published in 2018, are featured on ReLit’s website. Shortlists for the 2020 awards will be published on April 19 with winners announced on April 23, and the 2021 shortlists will be published on April 26 with winners announced on April 30.
Richard Sanger
Shadow Cabinet and
Calling Home with Signal Editions, and
Dark Woods with Biblioasis. His poems have appeared in many publications in Canada, Britain, and the United States, including
London Review of Books and
Poetry Review. His plays include Not Spain,
Hannah’s Turn, and Dive as well as translations of Calderon, Lorca, and Lope de Vega. He has also published essays, reviews, and poetry translations. He lives in Toronto.