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Olive Senior Shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award

Friday, 21 Apr 2023

Olive Senior We're happy to announce that Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems by Olive Senior has been shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award!

The award, from the League of Canadian Poets, is for the best new book of poetry by an active League member. The prize was established to honour Raymond Souster, an early founder of the League of Canadian poets.

The winners of the League Awards will be announced at a ceremony on Thursday 4th May - you can read more about the awards here.

Congratulations Olive!




Hurricane Watch Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems brings together Jamaican Poet Laureate Olive Senior's first four books of poetry alongside a new collection.  Senior has long been recognised as a skilful and evocative storyteller but what this book shows is the consistency and range of her achievement.

Senior's poems are delicate, formally playful and always finely observed, whether responding to Jamaican birdlife, the larger natural world or the traces of a complicated historical inheritance. Often, and always surprisingly, her poems' brilliant descriptions and vivid, gripping narratives open out into ecological reflections, politics and culture in original, surprising and sensuous ways.




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