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Frogs in the Rain Barrel was runner-up for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award in 1996

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Existing Music Madeline Sonik “Kalli Van Stone has wovenDescription Trillium Book Award winner Nick Thran explores the companionship of wistful music in his fourth collection. The poems in Existing Music both celebrate and interrogate the idea of the sad song. The lyrical narrative mixes autobiographical poems with fantasies about the speakers favourite musiciansfrom the long gaps between one artists records, and grief over anothers suicide, to the marvelling at anothers ability to write beautiful songs