The Ontario Poetry Society

Open to all Canadians who live and/or work in Canada

Submit your favourite food-related poems and recipes for
The Literary Gourmet Revisited
Editor and Compiler is Honey Novick
Front Cover Illustration by Roy James

Recipes wanted for Appetizers, Soups and Starters, Salads,
Side Dishes, Main Course Dishes, Desserts and Snacks.

Recipes may be yours or from a close family member.
Recipes may be previously published as long as they are your own original work.

Poems must be about food but do not include the recipe in the poem.
Poems may be in any style as long as they are your own original work.
Poems to be no longer than 50 lines and the spaces between the stanzas count as lines.
Poems must be written on a food theme. This may include poems on your favourite food
or least favourite food, poems about food poisoning, picnics, intimate romantic dinners,
hunger or about lack of food, poems about gluttony or too much food,
poems about the grocery store, the grocer, the butcher, the candy man,
the chestnut vendor, the ice cream truck, poems about your childhood treats
(marshmallow squares, anyone?), poems about eating food in odd places,
like the subway or on a mall bench, poems about watching other people eat,
or any other poem that mentions food or any kind of food, or multiple food items.
Poems may be previously published. There is no limit to the number of submissions.
No lewdness, no foul language and no heavy slant on religion.

Deadline:
Poems and recipes must be received on or before May 30, 2016.
Submissions must include $15.
All who send in their recipes and poems to be considered for the book will receive 1 free copy.
This is not a blind judging contest.
PLEASE put your name and complete contact information on your poems and on your recipes.

Send in your submission with payment payable to
The Ontario Poetry Society
#710 - 65 Spring Garden Ave.,
Toronto, Ont. M2N 6H9