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Photo credit
Jacques Pontbriand
Claudia Coutu Radmore
BIO
Biography

Claudia’s poems won the 2009 National Capital Region Canadian Author's Award for Poetry Accidentals (2011, Apt. 9 Press, Ottawa) won the bpNichol Chapbook Award.

Claudia Coutu Radmore's lyric poetry has been published in Psychopoetica, paperplates.ca and Acta Victoriana. Her work in Japanese form has been published internationally, and she is known as an editor for these forms. In lyric poetry, Claudia won the 2009 National Capital Canadian Author's Award for Poetry. Her work is included in Rogue Stimulus: The Stephen Harper Holiday Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament, Mansfield Press, 2010, and Pith & Wry: Canadian Poetry, Scrivener Press, 2010, edited by Susan McMaster, I Found It at the Movies, edited by Ruth Roach Pierson.

'the Breast for Sappiness' was included in Best Canadian Poetry, 2019.

Her work has been published in the Canadian edition of Sugarmule, Arc, Prairie Fire, Filling Station, CV2, The Antigonish Review, Qwerty, paperplates.org, Cede, and in other publications. 

Her poem 'where language forms' won second prize in Prairie Fire’s Bliss Carman Awards, and the poem 'argle bargle eructation' was shortlisted in the first Annual Lemon Hound Poetry Contest.

Her Fogo Island poem was shortlisted in the 2017 Malahat long poem contest. 

She has been a co-director of the Tree Reading Series, organized the annual Tree Chapbook Contest and has been on the editorial boards of The Bywords Journal and ARC Poetry Magazine.

Her collection Your Hands Discover Me/ Tes mains me découvrent, in English and French, was published in May 2010 by Éditions du tanka francophone, Montreal.

For several years, Claudia was editor of the Haiku Canada Antholgy, as well as co-editor of Touch of a Moth, Haiku Canada’s 40th year Anniversary and Wordless, the 45th Anniversary Anthology.

a minute or two/ without remembering, (Two Currents Press, 2010) was launched in October, 2010. In these poems in the voices of Claudia's actual New France ancestors, the reader discovers what is was like to live as a habitant near Montreal in the years 1671 - 1792.

Claudia won the Backwater Review Hinterland Award for Prose in 1997.

She wrote the foreword to, and edited, Arctic Twilight: Leonard Budgell and the Changing North (Blue Butterfly Books, Toronto). A collection of letters written by Hudson Bay post manager Leonard Budgell, Twilight was launched in Senator William Romkey's office on Parliament Hill on March 31st, 2010.

Accidentals for Apt. 9 Press, Ottawa, won the bpNichol Chapbook Award in 2011
Cyclone Vanuatu. 2015 catkin press, Carleton Place

Augmentation on a Sunday in Winter. 2014, catkin press, Carleton Place

Three Sets of Literary Haibun, 2015, catkin press, Carleton Place

the business of isness. 2018, Éditions des petits nuages, Ottawa

fish spine picked clean. 2019, Éditions des petits nuages, Ottawa

on fogo. Alfred Gustav Press, 2018, Vancouver

camera obscura. 2019, above/ground Press, Ottawa

rabbit. 2020, Aeolus House Press, Toronto

Park Ex Girl: Life With Gasometer. 2020, Shoreline Press, Montreal

Pink Hibiscus: Poems of the South Pacific. 2022, 

Éditions des petits nuages, Ottawa

 

 

claudiaradmore.com

claudiaradmore@gmail.com

ADDRESS
City: Carleton Place, Province/Territory: Ontario
EMAIL
PUBLICATIONS
Publications
Title
Pink Hibiscus: Poems of the South Pacific
Publisher
Éditions des petits nuages
Title
Ottawa
Publisher
2022
PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AND WORKSHOPS
Presentation details
Audience Size
Audience size
up to 100
Presentation Length
Up to an hour
Presentation Description
Presentation description

It varies.

Presentation Fee(s)
$100 - $250
Workshop details
Audience Size
40
Intended Audience
Adult
Workshop Length
Up to an hour
Workshop Description
Workshop description

It varies

Workshop Fee(s)
$100 - $300
School presentation details
Audience Size
30
Intended Audience
11, 12
Presentation Length
1 hour
Presentation Description
Presentation description

It might be a poetry reading or a discussion on self publishing.

Presentation Fee(s)
250
Programs & Interests
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Interested in participating in the Northern Ontario WITS program:
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No