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Maleea Acker's poetry collection, Hesitating Once to Feel Glory--a book cover with a dark background and a hand holding a crumpled ball of read yarn--is featured underneath the words
Hesitating Once to Feel Glory shortlisted for the Butler Prize

The Victoria Book Prize Society has announced the shortlist for the 2023 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. Maleea Acker’s poetry collection Hesitating Once to Feel Glory (Nightwood Editions, 2022) has been shortlisted for the award.

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Undoing Hours by Selina Boan wins an Indigenous Voices Award
Undoing Hours by Selina Boan wins an Indigenous Voices Award

Recipients of the fifth annual Indigenous Voices Awards have been announced, and Selina Boan has won the published poetry in English category for her book, Undoing Hours (Nightwood Editions).

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jaye simpson wins Indigenous Voices Award
jaye simpson wins Indigenous Voices Award

Congratulations to Nightwood author jaye simpson, whose debut poetry collection, it was never going to be okay, was named the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English. simps...

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Book cover of Orrery by Donna Kane. It's a dark blue space motif with a grey satellite and a cluster of stars in the bottom third of the cover.
Orrery, by Donna Kane, finalist for the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry

We're thrilled to share that Donna Kane's Orrery has been announced as a finalist for the 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards in the poetry category.  Orrery is a collection of poems inspired by Pioneer...

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Orrery, by Donna Kane, launches after an impressive countdown
Orrery, by Donna Kane, launches after an impressive countdown

Countdown to the launch of Orrery: ten days, ten readings of Donna Kanes poems, by notable personalities including the host of CBC's Quirks and Quarks, the Curator of Planetary Science at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

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