Craig Poile, co-owner of Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeebar, won an Ottawa Book Award in the fiction category for his poetry collection, True Concessions. The Citizen
reported that prize judges praised Poile's work as "a book full of
poems that float as lightly as a balloon tied to a toddler's wrist, or,
when they want to, stick like epoxy. Its language is deft and precise,
its imagery keenly observed, and its themes poignant and humane."
Other Ottawa Book Award winners were Bringing Art to Life: a Biography of Alan Jarvis by Andrew Horrall (nonfiction) and Claire Rochon's poetry collection Fragments de Sifnos in the fiction category of the Prix du livre d'Ottawa, for French-language publications.
