A Burnaby poet will have his work travel around the Lower Mainland this coming year, thanks to Poetry in Transit.
Aidan Chafe of Burnaby has been chosen as one of the 2018/19 poets for Poetry in Transit. The project – a partnership between the Association of Book Publishers of B.C., TransLink and BC Transit – showcases local poets with “car cards” that hang in buses and SkyTrain cars carrying excerpts from featured poet’s books.
Chafe’s work will feature excerpts from his Short Histories of Light (published by McGill-Queen’s University Press).
Poems eligible for the program must be by writers living in B.C. and published in book form by Canadian publishers. Poems are submitted by publishers and selected by a jury; this year’s jury included poets Evelyn Lau and Elee Kraliji Gardiner, plus Jennifer Froese from TransLink.
This year’s car cards will be launched at Word Vancouver on Sunday, Sept. 30 at 2:20 p.m. in the Sunrise Suite tent, with readings by selected Poetry in Transit writers, including Chafe.
Keep your eyes open for the poems in 2018/19 and tweet your photos and/or responses to them using the #PoetryInTransit hashtag – doing so automatically enters you for a chance to win one of three book prize packs.
See www.poetryintransit.ca for all the details.
