Last night, at the Palais Royale Ballroom in Toronto, Randall Maggs was presented with the $25,000 Kobzar Literary Award for Night Work: The Sawchuk Poems. Night Work has to be one of the most crtically acclaimed and awarded books of Canadian poetry in the last fews years, and is a book about Sawchuck, the charismatic  man, as much as it is a book of “hockey poems.”

Other accolades for Maggs’s Night Work:

- Winner of the 2009 Winterset Award

- Winner of the 2009 E.J. Pratt prize for Poetry

- A Globe and Mail  “Top book of 2008.”

- Randall has read at over 10 esteemed festivals, such as Thin Air: Winnipeg International Writers Festival, WordFest: Banff-Calgary International Writers Festival, Stephen Leacock Festival, and, Writers at Woody Point.

- “An unlikely a pairing as you will ever see, Newfoundland scribe Randall Maggs skillfully marries hockey and poetry into one of this year’s literary masterpieces.” – Stephen Clare, The Chronicle Herald