Poetry Face-off

by Alison Pick, John MacKenzie

Since 2002, CBC Radio has celebrated Canada's poetic imagination via a series of competitions that commission and showcase new poetry while animating performances through a poetry sports approach. CBC Radio Once has become a major player on the Canadian poetic landscape, hosting Poetry Face-Offs across the country. This is a compilation of this year's theme belonging by the 14 winning poets.

Audio CD

First published July 15, 2004

About the author

ALISON PICK'S best-selling novel FAR TO GO was nominated for the Man Booker Prize and won the Canadian Jewish Book Award. It was a Top 10 Book of 2010 at NOW magazine and the Toronto Star, and was published to international acclaim. Alison was the winner of the 2002 Bronwen Wallace Award for the most promising writer in Canada under 35. Currently on Faculty at the Humber School for Writers and the Banff Centre for the Arts, she lives and writes in Toronto.