Courtney Bates-Hardy is a poet and the Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Book Awards. Her debut collection of poetry, House of Mystery, is now out from Kelp Queen Press, an imprint of ChiZine Publications. She holds a Master's degree in Creative Writing from the University of Regina. Her poems have appeared in a variety of literary magazines, including Room, Carousel, and On Spec. Her poems have been featured in Imaginarium 4: The Best Canadian Speculative Writing and longlisted for The Best Canadian Poetry 2015. She lives in Regina with her husband and their cat, Jean Grey.
One of my poems was featured on the League of Canadian Poets’ Poetry Pause yesterday, and you can find it archived on their website. It was perfect timing for this poem to appear after battling a four-day headache last week. “Knots” is from my new manuscript, which is still looking for a publisher.
I am delighted to have two poems in the October issue of deathcap–“A Love Letter to the Cadavers Who Twice Saved My Life” and “Pedestal”. These are both poems from my current manuscript–one from the healing section and one from the monster section. I wrote “A Love Letter…” after reading Stiff: The Curious Lives of … More deathcap
Pleased to have a new poem featured on Poetry Pause a few days ago. It’s called “Care of Small Poems“, and it’s part of a series of poems I wrote on healing while I was at Sage Hill last summer. I was thinking, in particular, of all the times I cleaned and bandaged my brothers’ … More Poetry Pause
Delighted to have a new poem in the latest issue of Eye to the Telescope: The SEX Issue. Check out “Bride of Frankenstein” on their website. I really enjoyed reading everyone’s poems in this issue, especially “My Metalman Looks Best Covered in Plasma” by Clayre Benzadon, which reminded me of Jess Fink’s Chester XYV. I … More Eye to the Telescope
My copy of This Magazine’s latest issue just arrived, and I’m so excited to have a poem in this issue! “A Trail of Blood” is in the Jan/Feb 2020 issue, and you can subscribe to the magazine here. Huge thank you to David Ly for choosing this poem and saying such lovely things about it. … More This Magazine
