March 5, 2010. Congratulations to Randall Maggs and Brick Books for winning the 3rd Kobzar Literary Award for Night Work: The Terry Sawchuk Poems. The award was presented at a gala ceremony in Toronto on March 4th.

Night Work is comprised of compact, conversational poems that build into a narrative long poem, following the tragic trajectory of the life and work of Terry Sawchuk, dark driven genius of a goalie who survived twenty tough seasons in an era of inadequate upper-body equipment and no player representation. 

The prize is presented by the Shevchenko Foundation every other year to a writer and publisher for outstanding contributions to Canadian literary arts through presentation of a Ukrainian Canadian theme with literary merit. For more information on the foundation and prize, go here.