2007 Poem of the Year!
Susan’s poem, “Box,” was selected by Canada’s Parliamentary Poet Laureate John Steffler as the 1st-place winner of Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poem of the Year contest. Read the poem here
“Box” was published in the Best of Canadian Poetry in English, 2008 -- the inaugural volume of an anthology guest-edited by Stephanie Bolster and published by Tightrope books. Check it out on Amazon.
Susan Elmslie
is a poet who writes and lives in Montreal, Quebec. Her first trade collection of poetry, I, Nadja, and Other Poems (Brick, 2006) won the Quebec Writers’ Federation A.M. Klein Poetry Prize and was shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize, the League of Canadian Poets’ Pat Lowther Memorial Award and a ReLit Award. Her poems have also appeared in several Canadian journals, anthologies, and in a prize-winning chapbook, When Your Body Takes to Trembling (Cranberry Tree, 1996). Born in Brampton, Ontario, she has also lived in London, Ontario, and spent year-long stretches in Nice and Vancouver. She received a PhD in English with a specialization in Canadian literature from McGill University. Her poetry has been supported by Canada Council for the Arts grants for Professional Writers. She has also been a resident at the Banff Centre for the Arts and a poetry Fellow at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland.
Click on the links above to find out more about her work. Upcoming readings appear at the top of the “readings” page.
Parts of this site are under construction (November 21, 2011).
author photo: Danica Meredith, Aperture Solutions
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Susan has a poem in the powerful new anthology called
The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems about Facing Cancer. Edited by Fiona Tinwei Lam, the book features poems for cancer patients, survivors, their families & friends. Here’s the link.
