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- ↑ "The League of Canadian Poets announces winners of the 2018 Annual Poetry Awards". Quill & Quire , June 18, 2018.
- ↑ "Honey days of times past". Saskatoon Star-Phoenix , October 30, 2010.
- ↑ "Dionne Brand, Di Brandt among finalists for poetry's Pat Lowther prize: Brand, Brandt among poetry prize finalists". Canadian Press, April 4, 2011.
- ↑ "Derksen iffy; Enns shines quietly; The Vestiges needs fact checker; Ordinary Hours offers spare grace". Halifax Chronicle-Herald , October 18, 2014.
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