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[2] [3]Poetry In Voice/Les voix de la poésie is back for its third year, and this time the stakes are higher and the competition is tougher. For the first time, the annual poetry recitation competition will extend its reach from Ontario and Quebec to the rest of the country, and more than $20,000 in awards and school stipends will be awarded to winners and their school libraries.
[4]Student Sydney Gilchrist from London Central Secondary School placed second in the ‘Poetry in Voice’ Grand Finals in Toronto — one of many TVDSB students who took part in class-level and school-level competitions across Ontario this year.
Students from four Thames Valley District School Board schools were among 29 champions from secondary schools across Ontario to compete in the Poetry In Voice Ontario Finals in Toronto on Monday, April 16.
[5]You could say Sydney Gilchrist has a way with words.
The 18-year-old Central secondary school student recently beat out hundreds of competitors from across Ontario and Quebec to claim second place at Poetry In Voice, a poetry recitation competition.
[6]Poetry In Voice, which aims to promote poetry in the classroom and the community, took place April 18 and featured many of Toronto’s best poets including Dennis Lee, Dionne Brand, Kevin Connolly and Karen Solie. Also in attendance were Adrienne Clarkson, Greg Keelor from Blue Rodeo and Pierre Nepveu, one of Quebec’s greatest living poets.
This year’s contest included hundreds of participants from 40 secondary schools and CEGEPs in Ontario and Quebec.
[7]See page 25.
[8]Poetry in Voice, the second annual poetry recitation competition for students across Ontario and Quebec, took place on Tuesday, April 17. The event was hosted by Albert Schultz, founding artistic director of Soulpepper Theatre Company, and founded by Scott Griffin (the founder of the Griffin Poetry Prize).
[9]Congratulations to grade 12 student Jeff Hunt, who this week placed third overall at the Grand Finals of the prestigious Poetry in Voice competition in Toronto. Jeff recited the two poems he had previously recited to win the school level competition here at SJK, as well as a third poem, Beat, Beat Drums by Walt Whitman.
[10]This month I speak with Scott Griffin, founder/chair of The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry, centred on Poetry in Voice, the bilingual poetry recitation competition he founded.
[11]Earlier this week, nine provincial champions from Ontario and Quebec recited their favourite poems in front of hundreds of people at the Poetry in Voice 2012 Grand Finals. The performances were judged by a panel of some of Canada’s best poets: Gaston Bellemare, Dionne Brand, Nicole Brossard, Dennis Lee, Pierre Nepveu and Karen Solie.
[12]Upper Canada College IB1 student Alex Gagliano came out on top over eight other finalists in the national championship of the Poetry In Voice contest at Toronto’s Isabel Bader Theatre on April 17.