Liz Howard
Liz Howard at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2016
Howard at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival in 2016

Liz Howard is a Canadian writer.[1] Her debut poetry collection, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent, was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2015 Governor General's Awards,[2] and winner of the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize.[3][4]

Liz Howard was born and raised on Treaty 9 territory in Northern Ontario, Howard is of Anishinaabe descent.[5] She studied cognitive neuroscience at the University of Toronto.[1] Howard received an MFA in Creative Writing[6] from the University of Guelph.

Critical Acclaim and Judges' Citations

The judges' citations from the Griffin Poetry Prize offer insights into the depth and resonance of Liz Howard's poetic voice:

Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent

According to the judges, Howard's debut collection was praised for its remarkable qualities:

"With penetrating intelligence and playful musicality, Liz Howard’s ambitious debut collection keeps us delightfully off-balance with its mix of lyricism and experiment, allusion and invention. In her efforts 'to dream a science that would name me,' Howard explores a dizzying array of texts and landscapes, from Dante to Erin Mouré, from logging camps to high school dances."

"These poems are filled with energy and magic, suspended between competing inheritances, at home in their hyper-modern hybridity. INFINITE CITIZEN OF THE SHAKING TENT confronts its legacies with vivid imagery and crackling language, and introduces us to a bold, original poetic voice."

Letters in a Bruised Cosmos

Regarding her subsequent collection, the judges offered the following commentary:

"Responding to astrophysical evidence of a potential collision between the known universe and a parallel universe, the poems in Liz Howard’s powerful collection trace this ‘cosmic bruise’ as it recurs like an epigenetic expression in family history, intergenerational trauma, and the phenomena of everyday life."

"The poems in LETTERS IN A BRUISED COSMOS are intimate, astonishing, and moving caresses of the bruise the past makes within and around us, marking the many ways in which ‘history is a sewing motion / along a thin membrane’."

[7]

Works

  • Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent. McClelland & Stewart. 2015. ISBN 9780771038365.
  • Letters in a Bruised Cosmos. McClelland & Stewart. 2021. ISBN 9780771037573.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "'Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent' by Liz Howard" Archived 2019-01-20 at the Wayback Machine. The Winnipeg Review, September 15, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Governor-General's Literary Awards announces finalists". The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2015.
  3. ↑ "2016 Griffin Poetry Prize shortlist announced". CBC Books, April 11, 2016.
  4. ↑ "The Quotations of Bone by Norman Dubie and Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent by Liz Howard Win the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize". Griffin Poetry Prize, June 2, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Two debut poetry collections mix technical language with themes of identity, selfhood and race". The Globe and Mail, May 15, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Liz Howard". Griffin Poetry Prize. Retrieved 2023-11-17.
  7. ↑ "Liz Howard". Griffin Poetry Prize. Retrieved 2023-11-17.


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