The Ontario Poetry Society

First Prize:
Lynn Tait, Sarnia, Ont. for the poem "Snow"

Second Prize:
Jan Wood, Big River, Sk., for the poem "Below the Surface"

Third Prize:
Henry Beissel, Ottawa, Ont. for the poem The Day Confucius Wept"

Honourable Mention Awards
(in no particular order)

Lynne Burnett, West Vancouver, B.C. for the poem "A Thousand Blossoms"
Grace Vermeer, Sarnia, Ont. for the poem "Northern Ontario"
Carol A. Stephen, Carleton Place, Ont. for the poem "What Happens When a
Tumbleweed is Too Old to Tumble Anymore?"

Runners Up:
(In Alphabetical Order)

Becky Alexander, Cambridge, Ont. - "Doorknobs", "This Sting of Poetry"
Alexandra Alvares, Ottawa, Ont. - "Grandpa Nature"
Josie Di Sciascio-Andrews, Oakville, Ont. - "Picking Lilacs at St. Mary's Pioneer Cemetery"
Marsha Barber, Toronto, Ont. - "My Father's Retirement", "Junk Food"
Logan Barr, Kingston, Ont. - "Diminuendo"
Henry Beissel, Ottawa, Ont. - "Imperfect Recall"
Don Bennett, Haileybury, Ont. - 'The Rap"
Tina Biello, Nanoose Bay, B.C. - "Carmela"
Ronnie R. Brown, Ottawa, Ont. - "Family History", "A Man in Uniform"
Lynne Burnett, West Vancouver, B.C. - "Fishing Lodge, Hakai Pass"
Robyn Marie Butt, Woodstock, Ont. - "Child", "A Hundred Poems About Flowers"
Mark Clement, Cobourg, Ont. - "Dark Rain", "Kids and Waves"
Bradley C. Dart, St. John's. NL - Untitled, first line "Seabirds, streamlined"
John Di Leonardo, Brooklin, Ont. - "Disclosure", "A Sort of Easter Story"
Alvin G. Ens, Abbotsford, B.C. - "Exotic Dance"
Fran Figge, Stoney Creek, Ont. - "Changing Leaves"
Kate Marshall Flaherty, Toronto, Ont. - "She Whistles"
Katherine L. Gordon, Rockwood, Ont. - "Mouth Singing"
Marie Groundwater, Windsor, Ont. - "In The Urologists Waiting Room"
Debbie Okun Hill, Camlachie, Ont. - "In Need of Repair, Again"
Keith Inman, Thorold, Ont. - "Occupation"
I.B. Iskov, Toronto, Ont. - "Pluck"
Charlene Jones, Stouffville, Ont. - "Fantasy"
Allison LaSorda, Oakville, Ont. - "Vankoughnet"
Sheila Laundry, Fonthill, Ont. - "Parents Group
Norma West Linder, Sarnia, Ont. - "At Highland Glen Conservation Area"
S.A. McCormick, Minden, Ont. - "Mania", "Early Retirement"
Gary E. Miller, Richmond, Ont. - "To Milton Acorn, the People's Poet"
Laurie Lynn Muirhead, Shellbrook, Sk.., -- "Spring Break"
K.V. Skene, Toronto, Ont. - "In the Year of the Metal Dragon"
Patricia Smekal, Nanoose Bay, B.C. - "We, Limpets"
Emily Snellings, Whitby, Ont. - "Song of The Teenage Beauty Queen"
Sophie Soil, Thornhill, Ont. - "I remember mama", "working in the city"
Dorothy Stott, Gibsons, B.C. - "Return of Winter"
Isabel Sturgeon, Port Elgin, Ont. - "The Blizzard"
Lynn Tait, Sarnia, Ont. - "The Death of Poetry", "Sweetwater"
Linda K. Thompson, Port Alberni, B.C. - "Spring Tide", "Saying Goodbye"
Grace Vermeer, Sarnia, Ont. - "Return to the First Garden", "During a Long Illness"
Matthew Walsh, Toronto, Ont. - "Elegy for a Scottish Lass"
Nan Williamson, Peteborough, Ont. - "I Wanted to Stay", "Song of the City"
Elana Wolff, Thornhill, Ont. - "Split"
Jan Wood, Big River, Sk. - "Sundog Warning"
Ed Woods, Dundas, Ont. - "Home"
Anna Yin, Mississauga, Ont. - "Grandma's Warning"