The Bywords 2015 John Newlove Poetry Award Reading and Ceremony, October 26, 2015

Monday, October 26, 2015, 6:30pm - the Bywords 2015 John Newlove Poetry Award Reading and Ceremony at the Ottawa International Writers Festival, Maxwell's, 340 Elgin Street. Free! Join us for the launch of Heel by Matthew Walsh, the Bywords 2014 John Newlove Award Recipient. Featuring readings by this year’s honourable mentions and award recipient (to be announced at the reading), plus music by Marie-Josée Houle. This is a night to celebrate the fine poetry of John Newlove, a poet who lived in Ottawa for the last twenty years of his life. We are also celebrating Bywords.ca, which is in its 12th year, all the volunteers, contributors, readers, event organizers and others who ensure that the site provides poetry and information to help residents of Ottawa and environs to be part of our city's rich literary culture.

Contact Info: Amanda Earl, Managing Editor, Tel. 613-868-1364; e-mail: amanda@bywords.ca

John Newlove (1938-2003) was an award-winning Saskatchewan poet who spent his last years in the City of Ottawa. In 2007, Chaudiere Books published A Long Continual Argument: The Selected Poems of John Newlove, edited by Robert McTavish. Copies can be ordered directly, here.

new poems by Amanda Earl and Pearl Pirie, and an Apt613 article on Earl's poetry month writing project,

Amanda Earl has a new poem in the March issue of The Steel Chisel, Pearl Pirie has a new poem in the March issue of Bywords.ca (as well as a new chapbook out with above/ground press), and Apartment613 was good enough to write an article on Earl's month-long writing project for April.

a new poem by Anita Dolman

Anita Dolman, one of the authors featured in the anthology Decalogue: Ten Ottawa Poets (2006) has a new poem, "Leap," now online in the September issue of Bywords.

2012 bywords John Newlove Poetry Awards

bywords John Newlove Poetry Awards
Hosted by Amanda Earl
the ottawa international writers festival
Friday, October 26, 2012
Free event [more info here]
Knox Presbyterian Church • 120 Lisgar st. (at Elgin)
6:30pm

Join host Amanda Earl for the launch of Miss Canada (International) by rob mclennan, the 2011 recipient of the John Newlove Poetry Award. Featuring readings by this year’s award recipient (to be announced at the reading) and honourable mentions, plus music by Neil Gerster!

The award is named for the late Saskatchewan poet and Chaudiere Books author John Newlove, who died in 2003. Newlove spent his last seventeen years in Ottawa, as he liked to say, "for his sins."

Chaudiere Books published his selected poems, A Long Continual Argument, edited by Robert McTavish, in 2007. Copies will be available at the reading, and a copy is presented annually to the winner of the John Newlove Award.

Chaudiere Books author Marcus McCann reads at the 2010 John Newlove Poetry Awards

Bywords' 2010 John Newlove Poetry Award Reading at the Ottawa International Writers Festival
Southminister United Church, 15 Aylmer
Monday, October 25, 2010, 6:30 pm- a free event
contact: amanda@bywords.ca

Launch of The Glass Jaw, a poetry chapbook by Marcus McCann, the recipient of the 2009 John Newlove Poetry Award. With readings by this year's honourable mentions and award recipient to be announced at the reading, and music by the Companionship Registry.

The annual John Newlove Poetry award, launched in the fall of 2004, commemorates the honest, poignant and well-written poetry of John Newlove, an Ottawa resident for almost twenty years and poet who died in 2003.

Amanda Earl
Managing Editor
www.bywords.ca