Author: courtneybateshardy

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.

Talking Poetics

February 9, 2021

I was invited to talk about what writing a poem looks like for me over at the ottawa poetry newsletter. I couldn’t talk about that without talking about my mental health over the last two years. So here’s your content warning, this blog post is about my experience of burnout. While writing is an important … More Talking Poetics

The Red House

January 13, 2021

I was very excited to receive a copy of The Red House: An Anthology of Genre and Speculative Poetry in the mail this morning. One of my poems about Anna Morandi Manzolini is inside! I read The Lady Anatomist by Rebecca Messbarger a couple years ago, and it inspired a few poems about this extraordinary … More The Red House

Poetry Pause: Knots

November 10, 2020

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.

deathcap

October 19, 2020

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