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Jeff
Latosik

Award History

2009 Finalist

RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
for How the Tiklaalik Came Onto Land and Other Poems

Jury Citation

“These poems exhibit an intriguing off-kilter lyricism, an imagination prone to extreme hikes. Urban spaces, in these poems, are familiar, yet unsettling, by virtue of the poet’s startling metaphors – a corkboard of thought, a wristwatch that’s also a theatre. These poems often challenge proportion and scale, probe the surreal, and investigate their own gritty myths of origin.” — 2009 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Jury (Don Domanski, Jeanette Lynes, and Anne Simpson)

Works recognized by WT

How the Tiklaalik Came Onto Land and Other Poems