"'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