2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry Winner

Yusuf Saadi is the winner of The Malahat Review 2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry. Judge Steven Heighton selected “The Place Where Words Go to Die” from 519 poems entered in this year’s annual contest. Read Heighton’s comments about Saadi’s work here. Malahat poetry board member Samantha Ainsworth interviewed Saadi and explores questions like “Which comes first, the poet or the poem?” and “Do you have readers in mind when you write poetry?”