news | Wednesday February 15, 2017
The 2017 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness has published its long list of nominated titles, and we are so pleased to see Stephen Collis’s latest collection of poetry on the list! Called by Eden Robinson “the most dangerous poet in Canada,” in Once in Blockadia Collis is in search of how we can continue to resist – as we only begin to understand the extent of our complicity and the depths of the predicament we are in.
This year’s three judges – author/professor Trevor Carolan, Vancouver Public Library branch manager Jane Curry, and journalist/author Beverly Cramp – selected the following long list of ten titles, all of which were published in 2016 in British Columbia. In alphabetic order by author surname, the ten titles on the long list are:
For a complete list or recipients, visit bcbookawards.ca. A shortlist will appear in the Spring issue of BC BookWorld.