Leaf Press is an independent press located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, founded by Ursula Vaira in 2001. Leaf Press publishes and promotes new Canadian poets in the company of those in mid-career. Our mandate is to present poetry beautifully by maintaining high editorial and design standards and to support the poets by finding wider audiences.

Leaf Press
P.O. Box 416
Courier: 7727 Lantzville Road
Lantzville, BC,
Canada V0R 2H0

(250) 390-3028
poems@leafpress.ca

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Awards:

A Quiet Coming of Light by Jude Neale was short-listed for the 2015 League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Award.
Emilia Nielsen's Surge Narrows was short-listed for the 2014 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award by the League of Canadian Poets.
Joanne Thorwaldson's thirteen poems for releasing love was shortlisted for the 2013 bpNichol chapbook award.
Adrienne Gruber's chapbook Mimic won the 2012 bpNichol chapbook award.
Jude Neale's Only the Fallen Can See was long lisited for the 2012 Relit Awards.
Kirsty Elliot's True was short-listed for the League of Canadian Poets 2012 Gerald Lampert Award and long-listed for the 2012 ReLit Awards.
Tina Biello was shortlisted for the Bressani Prize at the Vancouver Italian Cultural Centre for Momenti.
Susan Musgrave and Leanne Boschman were short-listed for the ReLit Awards for their Leaf titles.
Susan Musgrave's Obituary of Light was short-listed for the CAA Award for Poetry.
K. Louise Vincent's The Discipline of Undressing long-listed for the ReLit Awards.
Kim Goldberg's Ride Backwards on Dragon shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award.
Allan Brown's Imagines co-winner of 2009 bpNichol Chapbook Award.

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