Kizziah Burton - Winner of the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024
Congratulations to Kizziah Burton, the winner of the Montreal International Poetry Prize 2024. Her poem, “Portrait of Me Incensing the Mushrooms Channelling Demeter,” has been awarded the $20,000 prize. .
The Montreal Prize is a not-for-profit, global poetry initiative aimed at connecting poets across national and regional borders. It is run by the Department of English at McGill University, in recognition of the department’s distinguished history as a centre for the creation and study of poetry. The Montreal Prize was founded by McGill alumnus Asa Boxer with the aim of channelling the potential of twenty-first-century grassroots crowdfunding into the creation of poetry. Seven competitions have taken place since 2011, judged by poets Andrew Motion, Don Paterson, Eavan Boland, Michael Harris, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lorna Goodison, and, this year, A.E. Stallings. The current director is Professor Eli MacLaren, and the operations manager is doctoral candidate Martin Breul.
All finalists will be included in The Montreal Poetry Prize Anthology 2024, to be published under the Signal Editions imprint by Véhicule Press of Montreal.