"'Buoyancy' accomplishes what its title names.  It employs language to clarify and heighten thought and emotion. It risks bringing to the surface "that pendulous balance between states," which--to my mind--is the very space of poetry." 

              - Johanna Skibsrud, Giller-winning author of The Sentimentalists, on selecting "Buoyancy" as the winner of the inaugural Young Buck Poetry Prize