2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner
![Monkey Ranch](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580978700-3508-image-3.jpg)
Monkey Ranch
Julie Bruck
Comic and sober by turns, these poems ask us what is sufficient, what will suffice? … a mandrill, a middle-aged woman, a shattered Baghdad neighbourhood, a long marriage, even a spoon, grapple with this unanswerable conundrum — sometimes with rage, or p…
2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Shortlist
![Any Bright Horse](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580874772-972-image-3.jpg)
Any Bright Horse
Lisa Pasold
![Li’l Bastard](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1581044741-7265-image-3.jpg)
Li’l Bastard
David McGimpsey
![Sailing to Babylon](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580963846-2318-image-3.jpg)
Sailing to Babylon
James Pollock
![The New Measures](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/1580976363-3315-image-3.jpg)