Writers' Trust of Canada - 50 Years
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Weyman Chan

Weyman Chan is a poet and recipient of the Latner Griffin Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize. His second collection, Noise from the Laundry, was a finalist for a Governor General’s Literary Award. Chan is a member of the poetry collective at fillingStation, Calgary’s experimental literary magazine. His seventh poetry collection is A Child’s Seance, and he is also developing the hybrid poetic-fiction project Chronicle of a Sleep Tower. Chan’s previous books include Human Tissue: A Primer for Not Knowing and Witness Back at Me. He lives and works in Mohkinstsis (Calgary), on Treaty 7 Territory.

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Award History

Jury Citation

“Weyman Chan’s urgent, unflinching, and redemptive poems span generations and geographies from Calgary to China,” said the jury. “Chan’s writing bursts with lyricism, wonder, and quiet ache. His poems are as concerned with notions of longing as with belonging. In Chan, we find a remarkable voice in Canadian poetry — necessary and distinct.” 2021 Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize Jury (Shane Book and Gillian Sze)

Works Recognized by WT

Human Tissue: a primer for Not Knowing

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