A selection of poems by Moose Jaw writer Gary Hyland has been nominated in the categories of Book of the Year and Poetry book for the 2008 Saskatchewan Book Awards.
Love of MIrrors: Poems New and Selected, released earlier this year, contains 135 poems by Hyland. In the book, there are 121 selected from his previously published works, and 14 previously unpublished poems.
In the Book of the Year category, books by authors Sharon Butala, Barbara Klar, Daniel Macdonald, Carey Rigby-Wilcox and Bill Waiser have also been nominated.
In the Poetry book category, Louise Bernice Halfe, Barbara Klar, Taylor Leedahl, Mari-Lou Rowley and Allan Safarik had recent books nominated.
The company that published Love of Mirrors, Coteau Books, was nominated in the publishing category, along with the Gabriel Dumont Institute and the MacKenzie Art Gallery.
The nominations for the book awards were announced Wednesday.
The awards gala will take place Nov. 29 at the Conexus Arts Centre in Regina.
Gary Hyland's Love of Mirrors nominated for Book of the Year for Saskatchewan Book Awards
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- June
- - September 18th, 2009 at 17:49:24
Doesn't say much for the literary tastes of some people in this province. Heard of a young man, years ago, who went off to seminary; Hyland's parting gift to him was a book of smutty prose and poetry. The kid's dad used it to start the bbq.
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- Noah
- - September 18th, 2009 at 17:30:54
June from Sask,
I'm sorry, but your point isn't quite clear. Would you care to elaborate? -
- jill
- - September 18th, 2009 at 16:33:14
In fact, it doesn't say *anything* about the literary tastes of people from this province. The people who choose the books that are nominated for Saskatchewan Book Awards are all from out-of-province.
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- Nik
- - September 18th, 2009 at 15:40:58
As the publisher of Gary Hyland's excellent collection Love of Mirrors , Coteau Books wishes to say we are extremely proud of this collection, and of all of this man's outstanding contributions to the City of Moose Jaw, to the province, to the world of fine literature, and to the many writers and high school students he has guided and inspired in his fabulous career. We suggest it is the case that sm*t is in the mind of the beholder. If this young man -- who apparently was mature enough to decide on going to seminary school but not mature enough to make up his own mind about his reading material -- has had a positive, spiritual, influence on even half as many people as Gary Hyland has, he may count his vocation to be an outstanding success.
Nik Burton, Managing Editor, Coteau Books
