1997 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

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, …

A Broken Bowl

Patrick Friesen

Apparatus

Don McKay

Autobiography

Marilyn Bowering

In Cannon Cave

Carole Glasser Langille