Description
This event celebrates the winners of the 2021 Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize, a prize for edgy, socially engaged poetry in celebration of poet, activist and actor Muriel Marjorie, who passed away in 2018. Muriel was well-known in the Downtown Eastside and other places in Canada, including through her involvement in the Heart of the City Festival.
You will enjoy the poetry of Canadian and Indigenous poets Catherine Garrett, Dolores Dallas Cowichan, Michelle Brown, Joseph Farina, Val Davidson, Jano Klimas, Sebastian Yue and Gilles Cyrenne.
If you’re looking for copies of the book of poems (From the Heart 2021) featured at Word Vancouver, you can get them at Iron Dog Books or on amazon.
Publication: Muriel’s Journey Poetry Prize 2021
Publisher: Word Vancouver festival
Written on: September 20, 2021
Published on: September 20, 2021