A Brief History of the Short-Lived Betty Baxter Prize(s): Winner CBC Literary Awards

Prize(s): Winner CBC Literary Awards (2003)

" Denham's brilliant long poem painstakingly laying out the natural beauty and geography of the small coastal town he grew up in and its transformation into "Memories rippling/ On the periphery of vision between clean new buildings

what stays with me afterwards are the 'science fictions' and their monstrous leaps of the imagination

Prize(s): Short-listed Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers (2021)

Living Things honestly introduces the contradictions of the modern world: "how what we see in daylight is less than whole / and also more so

A Brief History of the Short-Lived Betty Baxter Prize(s): Winner CBC Literary AwardsDescription In his third poetry collection, A Brief History of the Short Lived, Chris Hutchinson brings the full force of his linguistic dexterity to bear on the elusive subject of literature itself. With his restless intellectual curiosity tempered by a dash of witty self deprecation, Hutchinson deftly manoeuvres through hallowed halls of academia with humour and grace. Three stylistically distinct sections,"Imago,""A Brief History of the Short