Mr. Speaker, it is my pleasure to congratulate a very deserving constituent of mine. Ms. Stephanie Bolster was awarded the Governor General's Literacy Award in poetry for her book White Stone: The Alice Poems .
I offer the jury's citation for her work: “ White Stone: The Alice Poems was judged the best book of poetry in 1998 for as many reasons as there are poems in this wonderful sequence, but due primarily to Stephanie Bolster's ability to depict the emotional life of Alice Liddell as girl and woman in brilliant narrative juxtapositions. She uses her lyrical powers to present Alice the creation and Alice the person in a cultural context that, on one level, re-examines cognition and dissociation and on another liberates the poetic sequence from the monotony of story and closure”.
I congratulate Ms. Bolster for her creativity and contribution to Canadian culture.