A North Vancouver writer will soon see his words plastered on buses throughout Metro Vancouver.
Award-winning poet Russell Thornton is among 10 other B.C. poets selected for the 2020/21 Poetry in Transit project.
The project, which has been running since 1996, features the work of published poets in B.C. whose work is selected by a jury of poets in partnership with TransLink and BC Transit.
The poetry car card that’ll feature Thornton’s work sometime over the next year is from his collection The Broken Face, published by Harbour Publishing in 2018.
The selection is an excerpt from Thornton’s poem “Copper Door,” which you can read in part below:
Transit users are encouraged to use the #PoetryInTransit hashtag throughout the year when sharing a photo or response to one of the poems they encounter while riding a bus, according to a press release from the Association of Book Publishers of BC. People who use the hashtag will also be entered into a contest to win one of three book prizes featuring B.C. writers.
