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I had a really good time jurying for @CanadianPoets this year with @KikiFolle & @adebe_ and wanted to suggest everyone go find and read these twelve longlisted debuts.
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I would also like to note that mornings like this bring net more disappointment and confusion than joy for new writers and I want to speak a little to and for the other authors whose work we read this year. The Lampert list can feel like something of a class photo...
...for the year& #39;s debuting poets and if you& #39;re someone who didn& #39;t make the list (gestures at myself circa 2008) it can feel silencing. What I& #39;ll say is this: when I read through the submitted books first I made a list just called "Books I Liked" thinking I& #39;d hopefully
...come up with enough titles to contribute to the longlist. I came up with 40. I liked (felt grateful to and enjoyed my time with) a list of poets four times as long as the above. And I can imagine alternate lists just as strong and varied and weird and beautiful as this.
If you put three people in a jury room, they& #39;ll come up with an expression of taste in context. If you switch the people out, the list will change. If the people read the books in a different order, the list will change. If you dim the lighting in the room, the list will change.
