I am honoured to have been shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and Longlisted for the Pat Lowther Award from the League of Canadian Poets.

And I am so moved by these comments from the jurors of the LCP Raymond Souster Award Shortlist:

Anna Swanson’s The Garbage Poems, alight with April White’s irresistible illustrations, is a gorgeous, unflinching collection as big-hearted as the lakes, rivers, and ponds from which it recovers human joy and grief. Here poetry is ‘queer candy / in the underwater light,’ and litter glitters into archives of desire. From under the wreckage of colonial capital and its cruel machinery of disposability, delicious prayer surfaces. Swanson’s watery yet precise language resuscitates a wonder for life she nudges us not to give up searching for.

It was an honour to be part of such a gorgeous list of books and I can’t wait to read/finish/reread them all.

PS: A big congratulations to Rebecca Salazar on the win for antibody. It’s a gorgeous book. Go out and find it!