Carolyn Marie Souaid
(Montreal, 1959- )

Carolyn Marie Souaid is a teacher, poetry reviewer (The Gazette), and the author of four collections of poetry, including Satie's Sad Piano, which was nominated for the 2006 Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Her latest work "Flight," was released as a limited edition chapbook by Rubicon Press in 2007. Her work has been produced for CBC-Radio, and has been published nationally and internationally. She has appeared at many literary festivals across Canada, and was recently sent to Paris, France as part of a Canadian delegation of four poets invited to participate in the 4th International Symposium Against Isolation (a four-day forum on the inhumane treatment of prisoners of conscience in Turkey).

Since 2004, she has become involved in projects aimed at moving poetry off the page and into public spaces. She is the co-producer (with Endre Farkas) of two major Montreal events: Poésie en mouvement / Poetry in Motion (the poetry-on-the-buses project, 2004) and Cirque des mots / Circus of Words, a multilingual cabaret of performance poetry (2005/2006).

October (Signature Editions, 1999) set against the backdrop of the events of the 1970 FLQ crisis in Quebec represented Montreal in a display celebrating “Montreal World Book Capital” in 2005-2006.

She holds a Masters degree in Creative Writing from Concordia University in Montreal.

 

PUBLICATIONS / PERFORMANCES

"Flight," Rubicon Press, 2007

"Blood is Blood," a poem for two-voices, co-written with Endre Farkas, produced for CBC Radio One by Steve Wadhams, broadcast December 18, 2006

"Neiges," les Editions Triptyque, 2006 (translation of "Snow Formations" by Alain Cuerrier)

"Satie's Sad Piano," Signature Editions, 2005

"Snow Formations," Signature Editions, 2002

"October," Nuage Editions, 1999

"Fille au bord de l'eau," Ecrits des Forges, 1998 (translation of "Swimming into the Light" by Marie Evangeline Arseneault)

"Swimming into the Light," Nuage Editions, 1995