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Shane Book is an award-winning poet and filmmaker. He was educated at the University of Victoria, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Stanford University where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. His writing has appeared in more than twenty anthologies, including The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry.

Congotronic 2015 Shortlist

Judges’ Citation

Here is a contemporary world music that whirls the reader into the centre of the action at once.