Eleonore Schönmaier is a

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Career

Eleonore Schönmaier is the author of the critically acclaimed poetry collections ''Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete'' (2021), ''Dust Blown Side of the Journey'' (2017), ''Wavelengths of Your Song'' (2013), and ''Treading Fast Rivers'' (1999). ''Wavelengths of Your Song'' has also been published in German translation as ''Wellenlängen deines Liedes'' (2020). Her award-winning poems have been published widely in literary magazines in

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, including ''Grain'', ''Arc Poetry Magazine'', ''Prairie Fire'', ''Event'', ''Prairie Schooner,'' ''Stand'' and ''Magma''. Her poetry was chosen for the Academy of American Poets Poem in Your Pocket Day booklet in 2018 and 2020 and for the League of Canadian Poets Poem in Your Pocket Day brochures in 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2023, and for Poetry in Motion 2019 (Nova Scotia). Her work is widely anthologized internationally, and her poem "Weightless" was published in ''Best Canadian Poetry.'' Schönmaier has taught advanced fiction writing at St. Mary's University, creative writing at Mount St. Vincent University, and has worked as a writing mentor for the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia. She has won numerous awards, including the Alfred G. Bailey Prize, the Earle Birney Prize, the National Broadsheet contest, and the Sheldon Currie Fiction Award. American, Canadian, Scottish, Dutch and Greek composers have all written music based on Schönmaier's poetry including Michalis Paraskakis, Carmen Braden and

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. The New European Ensemble, and the St. Andrews New Music Ensemble have performed her poetry in concert.

Awards

* (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) Poetry Prize, Finalist, 2024 *Dave Williamson National Short Story Contest, honourable mention, Manitoba Writers’ Guild, 2023 *Poem in Your Pocket day contest winner, League of Canadian Poets, 2023 *Eyelands Book Awards, Poetry, Published Book Category, Finalist, 2020 *The Antigonish Review's Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest, Honourable Mention, 2020 *National Broadsheet Contest Winner 2019 *Arc poem of the year shortlist 2015 *Bridport Poetry Prize shortlist 2015 *Winston Collins Descant Prize for Best Canadian poem, Finalist, 2012 *The Antigonish Review's Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest, Third Prize, 2009 *Alfred G. Bailey Award 2009 *Earle Birney Prize 2008 *Great Canadian Literary Hunt, This Magazine, Poetry Finalist, 2007 *Sheldon Currie Fiction Award, Second Prize, 2009 *Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, Finalist Best First Book of Poetry, Canada, 2000

Works

*''Treading Fast Rivers'' McGill-Queen's University Press (1999) *''Wavelengths of Your Song'' McGill-Queen's University Press (2013) *''Dust Blown Side of the Journey'' McGill-Queen's University Press (2017) *''Wellenlängen deines Liedes'' parasitenpresse (2020) German translation of ''Wavelengths of Your Song'' Translator Knut Birkholz *''Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete'' McGill-Queen's University Press (2021)

Reviews

''Dust Blown Side of the Journey'' is the work of a poet who has mastered her craft...featuring a beautifully elaborate intertwining of images...connections continue from poem to poem...akin to recurring melodies or riffs across distinct movements of a composition...poems both captivating and moving.

The fluidity within the poems n ''Wavelengths of Your Song''is matched by the subtle flow between them. The effect is like that of a symphony with interwoven and subtly varied musical statements, and, as in a symphony, the effect is cumulative.

''Wellenlängen deines Liedes'' ist ein großartiges Buch einer ebensolchen Autorin, die es kennenzulernen gilt.

References

External links

Official WebsiteCBC Poetry Prize Finalist Ten Poems publishedField Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete descriptionDust Blown Side of the Journey descriptionWavelengths of Your Song descriptionTreading Fast Rivers descriptionMigrationsReview of Wavelengths of Your Song in Arc Poetry MagazineReview of Dust Blown Side of the Journey in Canadian Literature
* ttp://poets.ca/2019/03/21/interview-with-eleonore-schonmaier/ League of Canadian Poets interview with Eleonore Schönmaier
Live-Retrieved Memory: the poetry of Eleonore Schönmaier
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