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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n2010 Winner<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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“True Concessions” by Craig Poile\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
The poems in Craig Poile\u2019s\u00a0True Concessions<\/em>\u00a0are graceful, a perfectly smooth parallel-parking job, dexterous in the tight corners of both suburban and urban landscapes. Often he is at his best with things: suits laid out on the bed like \u201ctwo black shovelfuls,\u201d balloons, blankets, phones. Poile thrives when attuned to small displacements, as in one of his poems, the sonnet \u201cPlace Royale,\u201d where the poses of chairs \u201crevive what life was about \/ last night.\u201d We glean our place, Poile is saying, from cues hovering on a kind of sensory surface tension, which may or may not last. His prosody is strong, his voice assured. A fine collection. [2010 Judges]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Craig Poile<\/a><\/strong>\u2019s poems have appeared in\u00a0The New Quarterly, the\u00a0Malahat Review, Arc, and\u00a0Best Canadian Poetry. His first book,\u00a0First Crack, was shortlisted for the 1999 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. A playwright, technical writer, and bookseller, Craig is the co-owner of Collected Works Bookstore in Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Slide\u00a0<\/em>moves around in the eternal present, the nunc stans, taking us through time and space, over three continents, into a so-called past and possible futures\u2013where people, places and events continue to coexist in memory, in the body and in shared experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Barbara Myers\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>writes and works in communications consulting. Since the mid-1990\u2019s, she has published poems in journals and anthologies, and is a past associate editor of\u00a0Arc Poetry Magazine, to which she continues to contribute as a reviewer and essayist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Crossing Arcs<\/em>\u00a0pairs poetry about Alzheimer\u2019s with direct commentary by the person fighting the disease\u2013the poet\u2019s mother Betty Page. The work encompasses the spectrum of aging and loss but not with passive fatalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n2010 Shortlist<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>“Slide” by Barbara Myers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>“Crossing\u00a0Arcs: Alzheimer\u2019s, my mother, and me” by Susan McMaster<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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