Reviews and Awards

Awards

Winner, Jon Whyte Memorial Essay Prize, 1995, for “Today is the Frontier.”

Recipient, Canada Council and Alberta Culture writing grants.

Reviews of the first Ride Off Any Horizon anthology:

“The standard of work here is high and the range of subjects is broad. Very highly recommended.” – Pat Bolger, Canadian Review of Materials.

“…it is an excellent beginning. At their best, poets express a distillation of their environment. Judging from this book, the West is an interesting place, and westerners have a lot to say.” – Bill Pasnak, Alberta Report

Reviews of Falling Together:

“Falling Together sparkles with sensitivity and truth. At once down-to-earth and evocative, this collection depicts family life from the perspective of a single father. Lorne Daniel engraves his poems – his words keen blades that carve lush details in ordinary settings, grounding all with sure emotion. These poems delight with their spontaneity.” – Anita Hurwitz, Poetry Canada Review

“He doesn’t shy away from subjects which in clumsier hands could turn sticky: a son’s favourite blanket, a daughter learning to count, tucking children into bed. Kudos, Lorne.” – Pat Jasper, Poetry Toronto

“Daniel has a particular skill in evoking memory, coupled with the intelligence and control to explore broad themes on an intimate level.” – Andrew Brooks, Canadian Literature vol 117

“Lorne Daniel’s poetry in Falling Together is concerned with the elements of life, love, separation and pain. And it is full of risks. There is little cushioning from the cutting truth.” – Linda Christie, FreeLance

“Emotion and incident are linked in ways that accurately reflect the way we synthesize experience, putting it into the context of the rest of our lives rather than magnifying the poetic moment as a separate phenomenon.” – G.P. Greenwood, The Calgary Herald