NOMINATED IN 1991 FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL?S AWARD FOR POETRY: Rapturous Chronicles is a long prose poem in memory of novelist Juan Butler, whose tragic death cut short a promising career in Canadian writing; it is.an affair with language, with words and ideas, with the unfashionable idea of love itself.
"Passion and linguistic virtuosity are the first words that come to mind while reading [Judith Fitzgerald's] poetry... It is moving; it is scintillating; it is pyrotechnic as it explodes both language and emotion."? Books in Canada

Judith Fitzgerald is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry as well as two bestselling biographies, Marshall McLuhan: Wise Guy (Dundurn, 2001) and Building a Mystery: The Story of Sarah McLachlan and Lilith Fair (Quarry, 1997). Rapturous Chronicles (Mercury, 1991) was nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry; her epyllion, River (ECW, 1995), was both shortlisted for the Trillium Award and honoured with the James McMaster Poetry Prize; and her collection of ghazals and sonnets, Twenty-Six Ways Out of This World (Oberon Press, 1996), was named one of the six best poetry collections of the year published in English (Globe and Mail’s Top 100). Given Names: New and Selected Poems (Black Moss Press, 1985) was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award and won a Writers’ Choice Award. Fitzgerald passed away in November of 2015.

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