1979 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

The Winner and Nominees for the 1979 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry book award.

1979 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner

There’s a Trick with a Knife I’m Learning to Do

Michael Ondaatje

Selected and new poems offer glimpses of a private world in which images of horror are viewed through mirrors and prisms and in which madmen and animals inhabit a landscape of fearful natural beauty…

1979 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Shortlist

A Man to Marry, a Man to Bury
Susan Musgrave
Empire, York Street
Erin Mouré
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