Alumnus Phil Hall wins the GG

2011 Governor General's Award for Poetry goes to English alum

Killdeer: essay-poems by Phil Hall (BA, 1976; MA, 1978) has won for the poetry category this year.

University of Windsor connections abound

"We [Bronwen Wallace and Phil Hall] lived in the same house for a while – in Windsor – upstairs / & downstairs apartments – we were in the same graduate poetry / workshop run by Eugene McNamara at the University of Windsor [...]" (Killdeer p. 37).

Killdeer was published by Toronto's BookThug Press in an edition of 500 copies and as the fourth book in its Department of Critical Thought series. BookThug's managing editor is Jenny Sampirisi (MA, 2006).

Phil Hall's early chapbook, Homes, was published by Resident Writing Professional Marty Gervais's Black Moss Press in 1979.

More about Phil Hall

Read more about Phil Hall in The Daily News.

"The GG"

The Governor General's Award for Poetry was established by the Canada Council for the Arts in 1981.

The book to win the award in 1981 was F.R. Scott's Collected Poems.