And the 2006 NBCC Award for Poetry Goes to ...

This year's NBCC Award for Poetry goes to Tom Thomson in Purgatory, by Troy Jollimore (Margie/Intuit House).

The finalists for the 2006 NBCC Award for Poetry are:

Daisy Fried, My Brother is Getting Arrested Again. (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Miltos Sachtouris, Poems (1945-1971) (Archipelego Books)

Frederick Seidel, Ooga-Booga (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

W.D. Snodgrass, Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions)