Louise Bernice Halfe wins major poetry award

 Saskatchewan poet Louise Bernice Halfe is this year’s winner of the Latner Writers’ Trust Poetry Prize.
The award, which comes with $25,000, is given to a mid-career poet in Canada with a remarkable body of work.
Reached at her Toronto hotel room before the formal ceremony, Halfe said “I hope I’ve gotten over all the tears because I’m a crier when it comes to these events.”
Halfe is a former Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan who was recently honoured at the