Winner of the Gerald Lampert Award for Poetry (2004) and Shortlisted for the Trillium Award for Poetry (2004) Gritty and impressively realized "People's Poetry" with an added mystical dimension.
Getty's attempt to find spontaneity and a modern idiom by writing in traditional poetic styles mirrors a cultural attempt to find freedom and vitality. By meticulously studying the poetic techniques of the past, Adam Getty has put new wine into old wineskins: he has found a voice that is erudite, disciplined and, ultimately, free.
