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Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Legris served as Editor at Grain from 2008-2011.
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Pneumatic Antiphonal (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)
( Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlets" series, Pneumati...)
Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlets" series, Pneumatic Antiphonal is a fun, humming, bio-physiological word-whizzing flight into birdsong penned by young Canadian poet, Sylvia Legris ― her first publication in the U.S. Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlets" series, Pneumatic Antiphonal is a fun, humming, bio-physiological word-whizzing flight into birdsong penned by young Canadian poet, Sylvia Legris ― her first publication in the U.S. An excerpt: The theory of corpuscular flight is the cardinal premise of red birds carrying song-particles carrying oxygen. Erythrocytic. Sticky. Five quarts of migration.
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(Pneumatic Antiphonal) Author: Sylvia Legris published on (March, 2013)
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Sylvia Legris
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She has published four volumes of poetry, the third of which, Nerve Squall, won the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize and Pat Lowther Award, and the fourth of which was published by New Directions. Legris has also twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has been nominated for Best of the Small Presses Series, and in 2001 won The Malahat Review"s Long Poem Prize for Fishblood Sky. Legris also received an Honourable Mention in the poetry category of the 2004 National Magazine Awards.
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Pneumatic Antiphonal (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)
( Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlets" series, Pneumati...)
- (Pneumatic Antiphonal) Author: Sylvia Legris published on (March, 2013)
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Pneumatic Antiphonal (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)
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Pushcart Prize; Pat Lowther Award; The Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize; National Magazine Awards; Griffin Poetry Prize
The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.; The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.; The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.; The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.; The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.
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Pushcart Prize; Pat Lowther Award; The Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize; National Magazine Awards; Griffin Poetry Prize
The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.; The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.; The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada's most generous poetry award.; The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.; The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best 'poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot' published in the small presses over the previous year.