1997 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner

Land to Light On
Dionne Brand
A classic, prize-winning novel about an epic migration and a lone woman haunted by the past in frontier Waipu. In the 1850s, a group of settlers established a community at Waipu in the northern part of New Zealand. They were led there by a stern preacher, …
1997 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Shortlist

A Broken Bowl
Patrick Friesen

Apparatus
Don McKay

Autobiography
Marilyn Bowering
