Kudos - a bumper crop

May has been a good month.

Anita Lahey’s poetry collection, Out to Dry in Cape Breton, was announced as a finalist for Ontario’s Trillium Prize.

Patrick Warner won the E.J. Pratt Poetry Award for his poetry book, There, there. The prize is awarded annually by the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Red Ledger by Mary Dalton was also a finalist for this year’s E.J. Pratt Poetry Award. Her previous book, Merrybegot, won in 2005. All three books are Signal Editions edited by Carmine Starnino.