Find out what books were bought by winning schools in the past.
Books bought by Toronto French School’s library with the $1,000 prize won by 2013 National Bilingual Champion Khalil Mair. (French books were also purchased.)
ALEXANDER, ELIZABETH, ed.
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks, Library of America, 2013.
ALEXIE, SHERMAN
Face, Hanging Loose Press, 2009.
ATWOOD, MARGARET
The Journals of Susanna Moodie, Oxford University Press, 1970.
BACHINSKY, ELIZABETH
Home of Sudden Service, Nightwood Editions, 2006.
BASKER, JAMES G., ed.
Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems About Slavery, 1660-1810, Yale University Press, 2002.
BISSET, BILL
Narrative enigma/rumours uv hurricane, Talonbooks, 2004.
th last photo uv th human soul, Talonbooks, 1993.
BRAND, DIONNE
Ossuaries, McLelland & Stewart, 2010.
BROWN, DERRICK C.
Strange Light, Write Bloody Publishing, 2010.
BROWN, DERRICK WESTON
Wisdom Teeth, PM Press, 2011.
BUKOWSKI, CHARLES
Love is a Dog from Hell, HarperCollins, 2002.
You Get So Alone at Times, HarperCollins, 2002.
CARSON, ANNE
Glass Irony and God, New Directions, 1995.
Nox, New Directions, 2010.
Red Doc>, McClelland & Stewart, 2013.
Short Talks, Brick Books, 1992.
COLLINS, BILLY
Aimless Love, Random House, 2014.
DAVIS, LYDIA
The Cows, Sarabande Books, 2011.
DE MEIJER, SADIQA
Leaving Howe Island, Oolichan Books, 2013.
DIGGES, DEBORAH
The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart, Knopf Doubleday, 2012.
ELEVELD, MARK
Spoken Word Revolution, Sourcebooks, 2005.
GAMES, ALEXANDER, ed.
The Essential Spike Milligan, HarperCollins UK, 2003.
GIBSON, ANDREA
Madness Vase, Write Bloody Publishing, 2011.
HARDY, TARA
Bring Down the Chandeliers, Write Bloody Publishing, 2011.
JACKSON, GARY
Missing you Metropolis, Graywolf Press, 2010.
LAMMERS, DUFFLYN, WILLIAMS, SAUL, AND MONET, AJA, eds.
Chorus, MTV Books, 2012.
LEAV, LANG
Love & Misadventure, Andrews Mcmeel Publishing, 2013.
MARTIN, PAM
Variations on Blue, Acorn Press, 2013.
MOJGANI, ANIS
Over the Anvil We Stretch, Write Bloody Publishing, 2008.
The Feather Room, Write Bloody Publishing, 2011.
MOTION, ANDREW
Public Property, Faber & Faber, 2010.
The Cinder Path, Faber & Faber, 2010.
NICHOL, BP
bpNichol Comics, Talonbooks, 1984.
OLIVER, MARY
Dog Songs, Penguin, 2013.
Why I Wake Early, Beacon Press, 2005.
OLSON, ALIX, ed.
Word Warriors, Seal Press, 2007.
RYAN, KAY
The Best of It: New and Selected Poems, Grove/Atlantic, 2011.
SCHNOCKENBERG, GJERTRUD
Heavenly Questions, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
SHIRE, WARSAN
Teaching my Mother How to Give Birth, Flipped Eye Publishing Limited, 2011.
STARNINO, CARMINE, ed.
The Best Canadian Poetry 2012, Tightrope Books, 2012.
SZYMBORSKA, WISLAWA
View With a Grain of Sand, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1995.
WAKEFIELD, BUDDY
Gentleman Practice, Write Bloody Publishing, 2011.
Henhouse: How to Raise your Own Chickens, Write Bloody Publishing, 2012.
WERSHLER-HENRY, DARREN AND EMERSON, LORI, eds.
The Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader, Coach House Books, 2007.
WILLIAMS, SAUL
She, MTV Books, 1999.
The Dead Emcee Scrolls, MTV Books, 2006.
YOUNG, DEAN
Bender, Copper Canyon Press, 2012.
Elegy on a Toy Piano, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005.
Fall Higher, Copper Canyon Press, 2012.
The Art of Recklessness, Graywolf Press, 2010.
Books bought by Vancouver Technical Secondary School’s library with the $1,000 prize won by 2013 National English Champion Kyla Kane.
BLOOM, HAROLD
Art of Reading Poetry, HarperPerennial, 2005.
BUHLE, PAUL, ed.
Beats: A Graphic History, Hill & Wang, 2009.
GOYETTE, SUE, ed.
Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013, Tightrope Books, 2013.
GOTTFRIEDSON, GARRY
Chaos Inside Thunderstorms, Oolichan, 2014.
MICHAELS, ANNE
Correspondences, McClelland & Stewart, 2013.
UPPAL, PRISCILA
Exile Book of Poems in Translation: 20 Canadian Poets’Take on the World, Exile Editions, 2009.
MUSGRAVE, SUSAN, ed.
Force Field: 77 Women Poets of British Columbia, Mother Tongue, 2014.
CRAN, BRAD
Good Life, Nightwood Editions, 2002.
BUFFAM, SUZANNE, ed.
The Griffin Poetry Prize 2013 Anthology, House of Anansi, 2013.
JACIAN, JIM, ed.
Haiku in English: The First 100 Years, Norton, 2013.
JOHN-KEHEWIN, WANDA
In the Dog House, Talonbooks, 2013.
HENDERSON, MATTHEW
The Lease, Coach House Books, 2012.
HARSENT, DAVID
Night, Faber and Faber, 2011.
KAY, SARAH
No Matter the Wreckage, Write Bloody Publishing, 2014.
MITCHELL, STEPHEN, tr.
Odyssey, Atria, 2013.
KENDALL, TIM, ed.
Poetry of the First World War, Oxford University Press, 2013.
FORCHÉ, CAROLYN and WU, DUNCAN, eds.
Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001, Norton, 2014.
KENDALL, TIM, ed.
Poetry of the First World War, Oxford University Press, 2013.
TUPAC
Rose That Grew In Concrete, MTV, 1999.
PINSKY, ROBERT
Singing School: Learning to Write (and Read) Poetry by Studying the Masters, Norton, 2013.
ROGERS, JANET MARIE
Splitting the Heart, Ekstasis, 2007.
TSIANG, SARAH YI-MEI
Status Update, Oolichan, 2013.
CARIOU, WARREN, ed.
W’Daub Awae, Speaking True: A Kegedonce Press Anthology, Kegedonce Press, 2013.
CALLAGHAN, BARRY and MEYER, BRUCE, eds.
We Wasn’t Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War, Exile Editions, 2013.
MULDOON, PAUL
Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013.
Books bought by Westmount High School’s library with the $500 prize won by 2013 second-place Bilingual stream winner Aisha Nafees.
BACHINSKI, ELIZABETH
Home of Sudden Service, Nightwood Editions, 2006.
BLOUIN, MICHEL
I Don’t Know How to Behave, BookThug, 2013.
BÖK , CHRISTIAN
Eunoia, Coach House Books, 2005.
BURGESS, TONY
Pontypool Changes Everything, ECW Press, 2009.
CONNELLY, KEVIN
Drift, House of Anansi Press, 2006.
COOPER, AFUA
Copper Woman: And Other Poems, Natural Heritage, 2007.
FIORENTINO , JON PAUL
Needs Improvement, Coach House Books, 2013.
HALL, KATE
The Certainty Dream, Coach House Books, 2009.
MCGIMPSEY, DAVID
Li’l Bastard, Coach House Books, 2011.
MCKAY, DON
Strike/Slip, McClelland and Stewart, 2006.
MULDOON, PAUL
The Word on the Street: Rock Lyrics, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2013.
RIDLEY, SANDRA
The Counting House, BookThug, 2013.
ROGERS, DAMIAN
Paper Radio, ECW Press, 2009.
SAMSON, JOHN K.
Lyrics and Poems, 1997-2012, Arbeiter Ring Pub, 2012
SEYMOUR, DAVID
For Display Purposes Only, Coach House Books, 2013.
SOL, ADAM
Crowd of Sounds, House of Anansi Press, 2003.
STEINBECK, JOHN
The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, Penguin Classics, 2009
TIERNEY, MATTHEW
Probably Inevitable, Coach House Books, 2012.
WALSCHOTS, NATALIE ZINA
Doom: Love Poems for Supervillains, Insomniac Press, 2012.
Books bought by Father James Whelihan School’ library with the $250 prize won by 2013 third-place English stream winner Caitlin Botros.
BEACH, KIMMY
In Cars, Trunstone Press, 2007.
BRAID, KATE and SHREVE, SANDY
In Fine Form: The Canadian Book of Form Poetry, Polestar, 2005.
BRETT, BRIAN
Uproar's Your Only Music, Exile, 2004.
COLLINS, BILLY
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, Random House, 2003.
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, Random House, 2005.
DRONYK, DYMPHNY and KUBLIK, ANGELA
Home and Away, House of Blue Skies, 2010.
EUWER WOLFF, VIRGINIA
Make Lemonade, Square Fish, 2006.
FULLERTON, ALMA
In the Garage, Red Deer Press, 2006.
GOLDBERG, NATALIE
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, Shambhala, 2005.
PHILLIPS, WENDY
Fishtailing, Coteau Books, 2010.
PINSKY, ROBERT
Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud, W.W. Norton & Company, 2009.