ACORN-PLANTOS AWARD

ACORN-PLANTOS AWARD
NOVEMBER 2009

The Acorn-Plantos Committee is pleased to announce that Brian Bartlett, author of 'The Watchmaker’s Table', (Goose Lane Editions) has been selected as the People’s Poet, 2009.

Jeff Seffinga


The Acorn-Plantos Award for Peoples Poetry is awarded annually to a Canadian poet, based on a book published in the previous calendar year. The work should follow in the tradition of Acorn, Livesay, Purdy, Plantos and Others by being accessible to all people in its use of language and image.

The award is open to any living poet who is a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant. The work may be entered by the poet or the publisher. The award itself honours the poet.

The award consists of a cheque for $500.00 CDN and a medallion.

The deadline for entries published in 2009 is June 30, 2010, received.

To enter, send five copies and a cheque for $25.00 for each title to:


Acorn-Plantos Award
c/o Jeff Seffinga
36 Sunset Avenue
Hamilton, ON
L8R 1V6

For further information contact: jeffseff@allstream.net

Previous winners include Christine Smart, Ronnie R. Brown, Laisha Resnau, and Erin Noteboom.