| 2008 Far Horizons Award for Poetry: |
- Tadzio Richards, Travels in Beringia
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| Fiction: |
- Ian Bullock, Grasslands
- Tsering Lama, The Riot and a Girl
- Harold Rhenisch, The Silver Hills Above Caernarfon
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| Creative Non-Fiction: |
- Sioux Browning, Lost Pueblo
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| Poetry: |
- Kanina Dawson, "Incoming," "July in Brishna Kot," and "Naming the Sound That Took His Life"
- Barry Dempster, "A Carver Afterlife"
- Karen Enns, "The Smallest Thing"
- Susan Glickman, "Lies," and "Snow"
- Katia Grubisic, "Long Shot"
- Jason Guriel, "Sprezzatura"
- Michael Kenyon, "Basement," "Cellar," "Lost Countryside," and "When Hawks Stop Hunting"
- Frederico Garcia Lorca, "Romance Sonámbulo" (Translated from the Spanish by Rhea Tregebov)
- Richard Norman, "Event Horizon," "Eye 1," and "Eye 2"
- Steve Noyes, "An Introduction to Chaucer"
- Diane Reid, "You Never See a Bird Die"
- Peter Richardson, "Favour," "An Equine Accessory Chews Over Options Within the Confines of a Two Story Cycle," and "At Carruthers Point"
- Ingrid Ruthig, "Box," and "Closet"
- Shannon Stewart, "Bête Noire"
- Sarah B. Wiseman, "Fear of Bees"
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| Reviews: |
- Nadine McInnis, Two Hemispheres (London: Brick, 2007). Paperbound, 95 pp., $18. (Reviewed by John Cunningham).
- Randall Maggs, Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems (London: Brick, 2008). Paperbound, 189 pp, $20. (Reviewed by Laurie Graham)
- John Newlove, A Long Continual Argument: The Selected Poems of John Newlove, Robert McTavish, ed. (Ottawa: Chaudiere, 2007). Paperbound, 244 pp, $22. (Reviewed by Jay Ruzesky)
- Stan Dragland, The Drowned Lands (Toronto: Pedlar, 2008). Paperbound, 391 pp., $22. (Reviewed by Mark Dickinson)
- Mark Patterson, A Finely Tuned Apathy Machine (Toronto: Exile, 2007). Paperbound, 152 pp., $19.95. (Reviewed by Harold Hoefle)
- Anne Simpson, Falling (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2008). Hardcover, 320 pp., $32.99. (Reviewed by Linda Rogers)
Stuart Ross, Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer (Vancouver, Anvil, 2005). Paperbound, 128 pp, $16. (Reviewed by Lynne Van Luven)
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| Cover Art: |
- Glenn Howarth, Elephant Highway No. 2, 1984. Oil on canvas, 83.75cm wide, Michael Collard Williams collection, Maltwood Art Museum and Gallery, University of Victoria.
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