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Montreal International Poetry Prize - Dereliction: And the ocean too weeps. A poem by Salim Bhimji

Posted on Monday, March 4, 2024

Dereliction

About the author.

Salim Bhimji is a maritime researcher based in the United Kingdom.  He is a Director of Ocean Press & Publishing Ltd.  He began his creative writing education at the Poetry School in London and describes himself as an "incurable student" of poetry.

The Montreal International Poetry Prize

The Montreal International Poetry Prize was founded in 2010 by the poet and critic Asa Boxer.  It sponsors a crowd-funded competition, awarding one prize of $20,000 to one poet for a single poem every two years.  It is a global competition, suppored by an international jury of poets from around the world and participants from more than 100 countries.  It is managed by he Department of English at McGill University.

 

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