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The Gladys Elegies

BILLEH NICKERSON

Barbara Nickel's The Gladys Elegies (Coteau Books) was the deserving winner of this year's Pat Lowther Memorial Award for best book of poetry by a Canadian woman. Although there are many things I'd rather do than read sonnets, Nickel's subtle and delicate elegies won me over.

Her writing flows with the certainty of that fish tail you're always drawn to in an aquarium, the one that makes you feel as if you've gone somewhere even when you've been standing still.

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BILLEH NICKERSON

Billeh Nickerson is an author, editor and educator whose sixth book, Duct-Taped Roses was recently published with Book*hug Press. He is Co-Chair of the Creative Writing department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, BC. He lives in East Vancouver.


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