我们非常高兴地宣布，杰出的加拿大诗人蒂姆·利尔本，经由评委会决定，您被授予欧洲诗歌暨文艺荷马奖章。

“奋斗，探索，寻求，而不屈服。”

——阿尔弗雷德·邓尼生，《尤利西斯》，1942

荷马是欧洲和世界文化之父，其两部伟大史诗——《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》——是文学之基石、艺术与文化之永恒灵感。伟大的盲歌者赠予我们普遍性之遗产，建起那不为时光摧毁的纪念碑。这位伟大创造者带着熊熊火焰力量的视域点燃从古至今的想象力。因之，在2015年9月的布鲁塞尔，意欲继承这一伟大遗产的世界艺术家们应召创设欧洲诗歌暨文艺荷马奖章。奖章评委会成员们来自美国、比利时、德国、波兰、意大利、法国、保加利亚、巴西、摩洛哥和中国。

欧洲诗歌暨文艺荷马奖章将授予那些在当今世界之文学和视觉艺术领域中的卓越创造者。评委会将褒奖作品富简洁与美、具普世理念、回应恒久范式的艺术家们，艺术技巧的高度和广泛传递的力量是其最重要的品质，奖章获得者们将因此而丰富他们的精神之父荷马的万神殿。

评委会高度认同您的诗歌在当代加拿大和世界文化中的重要性，您居于我们这个时代最杰出的诗人行列之中。

扎根于西方文化思想史上诗性冥思哲学传统和北美大陆的土著文化想象，多年来，蒂姆·利尔本的带着超验渴望和高难度技巧的诗歌写作不断地震惊读者并获得持续深化，那些仿佛被强力胶粘合在一起的语词有着令人瞠目结舌、目眩神迷的效果，形成了壮丽加拿大山川、河流、原野、海洋它们自己的惊人语词生活，诗人从事着独特的神秘主义—生态学想象特权的纸上沉思劳作，以此不懈地找寻、形成在殖民文化和土著的北美想象间展开更丰富对话的基础。这个坚持以诗歌为自己认知的实践和道路的诗人，将其极端的认识论贯彻进语言的命名行动中，更新着我们看世界的方式和“看”自身的本质，但同时了知再热切的观看也不能使事物被彻底了知。利尔本是当今英语语言中写着最富哲学意味、深刻吸引人和特立独行的诗篇的极少数卓越者中的一员，在诗性思想深度和诗歌技艺难度两方面的当今诗人楷模。

大流士·托马斯·莱比奥达  

欧洲诗歌暨文艺荷马奖章评委会主席

赵四                                   

欧洲诗歌暨文艺荷马奖章评委会副主席

贾拉尔·哈克茂维                     

欧洲诗歌暨文艺荷马奖章评委会副主席

AWARD CEREMONY SPEECH

We are very pleased to inform you, the distinguished Canadian poet, Tim Lilburn that you have been awarded the European Medal of Poetry and Art HOMER by the Chapter decision.

   “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

—Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses. 1942

Homer is the father of European and world culture, and his two great epics—the Iliad and the Odyssey— are the foundation of literature, the eternal inspiration for art and culture. The blind singer left a message of universality and built monuments, which are not dashed by centuries. Visions of this great creator had the power of flames and ignited the imagination from antiquity to the present. Thus, a great heritage group of worldwide artists was called into existence, September 2015, in Brussels, to inaugurate the European Medal of Poetry and Art. Medal recipients were artists from USA, Belgium, Germany, Poland, Italy, France, Bulgaria, Brazil, Morocco, and China.

The European Medal of Poetry and Art, HOMER, will be awarded to outstanding creators in the world of literature and the visual arts. A jury will award the artists, whose works will be, with simplicity and beauty, universal messages to the world, reflecting the ancient patterns. The most important category is the level of artistry and the power of transmission, so that subsequent winners may enrich the pantheon of their spiritual father, Homer.

The members of the Chapter wish to emphasize the importance of your poetry for contemporary Canadian culture and the whole world. You belong to some of the greatest poets of our time.

With thoughts rooted in western intellectual history from Plato to Christian contemplative tradition and indigenous culture imagination on North America, year by year, books of poetry by Tim Lilburn, with his transcendental hunger and high challenging levels of aesthetic accomplishment have steadily surprised their readers and deepened them. Mighty-bound words hold together in his poems and achieve a stunning and dazzling effect within a parallel word life in extraordinary landscapes of particular mountains, rivers, prairies, and oceans in Canada. Committed to his distinct contemplative way of working, in poems of significant mystical-ecological imagination, Lilburn unflaggingly seeks to find and help to form the grounds for more fruitful conversations between settler culture and the indigenous North America imagination. Insisting on knowing the world through poetry being his practice and way, Lilburn presses his radical epistemology into the naming action of language, renovates the way we see the world as well as the nature of that seeing which includes its paradox of knowing a thing is unknowable while intensely seeing it. Lilburn is one of a handful of poets who write the most sophisticated, engaging and distinctive poetry in the English language today, and he is a model for contemporary poets both in the depth of poetic thoughts and the complexity of his poetic art.

Darius Thomas Lebioda                           

President of European Medal of Poetry And Art HOMER

Zhao Si                                                 

Vice President of European Medal of Poetry And Art HOMER

Jalal el Hakmaoui                                  

Vice President of European Medal of Poetry And Art HOMER