• Cantos from a Small Room

Cantos from a Small Room

January 1, 1993 | ISBN 978-0-919897-37-3 | 88 Pages | OUT OF PRINT

**Out of Print** January 1993 88 pages | ISBN 978-0-919897-37-3 **Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry** In his seventh book of poetry, Hillies describes his feelings of affection and admiration for his mother-in-law, and the sense of loss the family experienced upon her death of cancer in her middle years. An astounding collection of poems, Cantos from a Small Room won the Governor General's Award for poetry. About Nothing Vanishes:"The voice seldom strives for the distant simile or the arresting metaphor, instead it adds detail to detail with an attentiveness which very obviously cares more for accuracy than effect,… Read more
  • **Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry**

  • Robert Hillies was born and raised in Kenora, Ontario, and now lives in Calgary, Alberta, with his wife Rebecca and their two children Breanne and Austin.  He teaches computer programming at the DeVry Institute of Technology. His first novel, Raising of Voices, won the Writers' Guild of Alberta Georges Bugnet Award for best novel.  He also won the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1994 for his book Cantos from a Small Room.