2017 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

On Not Losing My Father’s Ashes in the Flood

Richard Harrison

In his final years, Richard Harrisons father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child. In 2013, the poet feared his fathers ashes had been lost in t…

All the Names Between

Julia McCarthy

Selah

Nora Gould

Slow War

Benjamin Hertwig

What the Soul Doesn’t Want

Lorna Crozier