A Gleneagle secondary grad is on the shortlist for a BC Book Prize.
Last week, the West Coast Book Prize Society named Port Moody native Rob Taylor as a finalist in the poetry category for his work The News, which chronicled his wife’s pregnancy.
Taylor, now a Vancouver resident, is in the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize category against: Adèle Barclay, If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You (Nightwood Editions); Anne Fleming, poemw (Pedlar Press); Juliane Okot Bitek, 100 Days (University of Alberta Press); and Richard Therrien, Sleeping in Tall Grass (University of Alberta Press).
The winner will be announced at the Lieutenant Governor’s BC Book Prizes Gala on April 29 in Vancouver.
In 2015, Taylor won the Vancouver mayor’s award for literary arts (emerging artist).
