2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner

More to Keep Us Warm
Jacob Scheier
Both chronicle and confrontation, the poems of Jacob Scheiers debut work out and through notions of loss. As the death of a young mans mother instigates and informs these investigations, the realities of romantic failures become inextricably connected, a…
2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Shortlist

Aide-Mémoire
Ruth Roach Pierson

Noise from the Laundry
Weyman Chan

The Invisibility Exhibit
Sachiko Murakami
