1997 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner
![Land to Light On](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581046848-7436-image-3.jpg)
Land to Light On
Dionne Brand
A classic, prize-winning novel about an epic migration and a lone woman haunted by the past in frontier Waipu. In the 1850s, a group of settlers established a community at Waipu in the northern part of New Zealand. They were led there by a stern preacher, …
1997 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Shortlist
![A Broken Bowl](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580868672-468-image-3.jpg)
A Broken Bowl
Patrick Friesen
![Apparatus](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580874639-961-image-3.jpg)
Apparatus
Don McKay
![Autobiography](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/no-image-1-image-3.jpg)
Autobiography
Marilyn Bowering
![In Cannon Cave](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581064149-8231-image-3.jpg)