Near Miss John Stiles Prize(s): Winner Canadian Authors Association

Prize(s): Winner Canadian Authors Association Jack Chalmers Poetry Award (2004)

Cruise Missile Liberals is full of marvellous stuff

September 2016

and above all the element of water

It creates a sense of irrepressible energy

Near Miss John Stiles Prize(s): Winner Canadian Authors AssociationDescription Near Miss considers the relationship between close calls and the tenuous conditions of contemporary life. From actual cataclysms such as meteor collisions and volcanic eruptions to everyday failures and accidents, these inventive poems collide with the perpetual unease created by lifes unpredictability while contemplating mortality, fragility, gratitude and hopefulness. When the Emergency Broadcast System proclaims this is only a test, you