The 2022 Nick Blatchford Occasional Verse Contest

Winner

“Rebellion Box” by Hollay Ghadery

Runner-Up

“Fugue” by Callista Markotich

Third Place (tie)

“Agincourt, 1415” by Finley Mullally

“The Body Translates an Old Story” by Grace Vermeer

Honourable Mentions

“Birth Crasher” by Leesa Dean

“Testimony, March 3 2011” by Anne Hopkinson

“Mother’s Day, Kigeme Refugee Camp” by Anne Hopkinson

“Bone November” by Sandra Kasturi

“Black Angus” by Terence Young

“She sits down to write the history of rain and suddenly the wild fall into order” by Pamela Porter

“Adept” by Elana Wolff

“Between Worlds” by Pamela Porter

“On Seeing the Ice Tongs at the Billings Estate” by Karen Massey

“Three Feelings Walk Into a Bar” by Kerrie Penney