Nominees for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize:
* Gillian Jerome, Red Nest ( Nightwood Editions).
* Larissa Lai, Automaton Biographies (Arsenal Pulp Press).
* Miranda Pearson, Harbour (Oolichan Books).
* Fred Wah, is a door (Talonbooks).
* David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn (Harbour Publishing).
In Automaton Biographies, Larissa Lai explores the problem of what it means to exist on the boundaries of the human. The books consists of four long poems: “Rachel,” a meditation in the voice of the cyborg figure Rachel from Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner and its source material, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ; “nascent fashion,” which addresses contemporary war and its excesses; “Ham,” which circulates around the chimpanzee sent up into space as part of the Mercury Redstone missions by NASA and later donated to the Coulston Foundation for biomedical research; and “auto matter,” a kind of unfolding autobiography told in poems. Larissa Lai, an Assistant Professor in Canadian Literature at the University of British Columbia, is the author of Salt Fish Girl and When Fox is A Thousand.
The BC Book Prizes, including The Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence, are presented annually at the Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prize Gala in April. The awards carry a cash prize of $2000 plus a certificate.
(More information HERE.)
* Gillian Jerome, Red Nest ( Nightwood Editions).
* Larissa Lai, Automaton Biographies (Arsenal Pulp Press).
* Miranda Pearson, Harbour (Oolichan Books).
* Fred Wah, is a door (Talonbooks).
* David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn (Harbour Publishing).
In Automaton Biographies, Larissa Lai explores the problem of what it means to exist on the boundaries of the human. The books consists of four long poems: “Rachel,” a meditation in the voice of the cyborg figure Rachel from Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner and its source material, Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? ; “nascent fashion,” which addresses contemporary war and its excesses; “Ham,” which circulates around the chimpanzee sent up into space as part of the Mercury Redstone missions by NASA and later donated to the Coulston Foundation for biomedical research; and “auto matter,” a kind of unfolding autobiography told in poems. Larissa Lai, an Assistant Professor in Canadian Literature at the University of British Columbia, is the author of Salt Fish Girl and When Fox is A Thousand.
The BC Book Prizes, including The Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence, are presented annually at the Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prize Gala in April. The awards carry a cash prize of $2000 plus a certificate.
(More information HERE.)
