Jordan Scott Receives Latner Poetry Prize

Canadian poet Jordan Scott has been awarded the prestigious Latner Poetry Prize by the Writer's Trust of Canada, which carries a $25,000 purse. "For Scott, each context and uttering body manifests an original materiality: the precision of nature, anatomy, the names of friends, the contours of British Columbia or Poland, the daily ritualized cycles of parenthood and the cosmos. His associations, insinuations, discoveries, tensions, and mysterious propulsive force—these manifestations of his consciousness—are wondrous," wrote the jury members. More, from Coach House:

On the honour, Scott says, ‘For me, one of the best parts of being a poet are the friendships I’ve made. I would not be in this position without the kindness of mentors and the generosity of my friends.’ His works include Blert, a meditation on stuttering (Scott, like fifty million others, has always stuttered), decomp, the result of a poetic science experiment in which he and Stephen Collis travelled around British Columbia leaving 5 copies of The Origin of Species in 5 unique ecosystems and then ‘reading’ the book in its various states of decomposition, and most recently Night & Ox, which navigates fatherhood against the backdrop of the ESA's Rosetta mission to study comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. 

Congratulations to Scott! Find out more here.