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City of Vancouver Award, 2013
The first poet to win the City of Vancouver Book Award was Downtown Eastside activist Bud Osborn for Keys to Kingdom in 1999. Bill New did it last year for his collection YVR.
Now Brad Cran has a chance to become the third poet since 1989 to win that award, as well as its first two-time winner, with Ink on Paper (Nightwood Editions $18.95).
Cran first won the 2008 City of Vancouver Book Award for his non-fiction book Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (with Gillian Jerome), a social justice initiative, sold on streetcorners, that has reportedly raised $50,000 for marginalized people in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
As a Poet Laureate for the City of Vancouver from 2009 to 2011, Cran first made the news when his criticisms of 2010 Olympics Games in an essay called "Notes on a World Class City"; went viral on the internet, raising the hackles of Olympic organizers. His new volume of Vancouvercentric verse most notably contains his civic poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Grey Whale and Ending with a Line from Rilke."
Other shortlisted books include: Jancis M. Andrews' The Ballad of Mrs. Smith (Hedgerow Press); Amber Dawn's How Poetry Saved my Life (Arsenal Pulp Press); Harold Kalman's and Robin Ward's Exploring Vancouver - The Architectural Guide (Douglas & McIntyre); and Sean Kheraj's Inventing Stanley Park (UBC Press).
The five shortlisted titles were chosen by an independent jury that included: Elee Kraljii Gardener, an award-winning poet and director of the Thursdays Writing Collective; Paul Whitney, a retired City librarian; and Andrea Davies, owner of Hager Books in Kerrisdale. The 25th annual award ceremony will be presented at the Mayor's Arts Awards Gala at Science World on November 22.
978-0-88971-281-2
[BCBW 2013]
Now Brad Cran has a chance to become the third poet since 1989 to win that award, as well as its first two-time winner, with Ink on Paper (Nightwood Editions $18.95).
Cran first won the 2008 City of Vancouver Book Award for his non-fiction book Hope in Shadows: Stories and Photographs of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside (with Gillian Jerome), a social justice initiative, sold on streetcorners, that has reportedly raised $50,000 for marginalized people in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
As a Poet Laureate for the City of Vancouver from 2009 to 2011, Cran first made the news when his criticisms of 2010 Olympics Games in an essay called "Notes on a World Class City"; went viral on the internet, raising the hackles of Olympic organizers. His new volume of Vancouvercentric verse most notably contains his civic poem, "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Grey Whale and Ending with a Line from Rilke."
Other shortlisted books include: Jancis M. Andrews' The Ballad of Mrs. Smith (Hedgerow Press); Amber Dawn's How Poetry Saved my Life (Arsenal Pulp Press); Harold Kalman's and Robin Ward's Exploring Vancouver - The Architectural Guide (Douglas & McIntyre); and Sean Kheraj's Inventing Stanley Park (UBC Press).
The five shortlisted titles were chosen by an independent jury that included: Elee Kraljii Gardener, an award-winning poet and director of the Thursdays Writing Collective; Paul Whitney, a retired City librarian; and Andrea Davies, owner of Hager Books in Kerrisdale. The 25th annual award ceremony will be presented at the Mayor's Arts Awards Gala at Science World on November 22.
978-0-88971-281-2
[BCBW 2013]
Submitted on October 3, 2013 in By David.
