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2007 Finalists - Poetry


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The Door: Poems  Margaret Atwood, Toronto, for
The Door: Poems (McClelland & Stewart; distributed by Random House of Canada) (ISBN 978-0-7710-0880-1)

These penetrating, psychological poems, with their strong, iconic metaphors, mediate the relationship between identity and family. This book takes an unwavering look at the human condition with equal measures of humour and alarm.

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All Our Wonder Unavenged Don Domanski, Halifax, for All Our Wonder Unavenged
(Brick Books; distributed by LitDistCo) (ISBN 978-1-894078-58-6)

Don Domanski invites us into a charmed landscape where unexpected magic flares up. His newest book of poetry is a personal, spiritual meditation.

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Nerve Language  Brian Henderson, Kitchener (ON), for Nerve Language
(Pedlar Press; distributed by LitDistCo) (ISBN 978-1-897141-13-7)

Terrifying and beautiful, the language in this book is an incendiary crossing of wires. These poems are as likely to break you open as they are to explode.

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Yesno: Poems Dennis Lee, Toronto, for Yesno: Poems
(House of Anansi Press; distributed by HarperCollins Canada) (ISBN 978-0-88784-758-5)

Dennis Lee has written a poetic lament about the willingness of humanity to rush onward into an ecological holocaust of the future. A playful tour de force, his book rebuilds our fragmented language in order to sing out against a disaster too horrible for ordinary words.


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Muybridge’s Horse: A Poem in Three Phases Rob Winger, Ottawa, for Muybridge’s Horse: A Poem in Three Phases
(Nightwood Editions; distributed by Harbour Publishing) (ISBN 978-0-88971-231-7)

Rob Winger has captured, in beautiful vignettes, the astonishing life of Eadweard Muybridge. With lavish imagery, Winger evokes the emotional intensity of a photographic genius caught up in the birth of a new technological era.


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