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The Betty Drevniok Award 2007

Judge: Michael Dylan Welch

First Prize
Author: Francine Banwarth
the paramedic feeling
for a pulse
            fireflies
Second Prize
Author: Carol Pearce-Worthington
in her hand
the downed branch
dancing again
Third Prize
Author: Lin Geary
white ice on the willows
my hand slipping
           into yours
Honourable Mention
Author: Merilyn Peruniak
long spring evening:
double-decker
gets fitted with new ads
Honourable Mention
Author: Barry Goodman
a sliver of clay
flies off the potter's wheel
the moon almost full
Honourable Mention
Author: André Surridge
fading harbour light
becoming brisker
her brush strokes
Honourable Mention
Author: Irene Golas
first warm day
father gets out
his cap and cane
Honourable Mention
Author: Leanne McIntosh
   The train's whistle
for a moment long grass
   blowing west
Honourable Mention
Author: Francine Banwarth
the wad of paper
uncrumples
longest night
Honourable Mention
Author: John Quinnett
more news of the war
looking deeper
into my dog's eyes
Honourable Mention
Author: Roland Packer
sugar maple
the fingerless gloves
of the fiddler
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