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m Rob Winger, a 2003 MA graduate ofU of G's English program, was a finalist for th e 2007 Governor General's Literary Awards for a book in verse that he worked on as part of his master's thesis. Winter was nominated for M1qbridge's Horse:A Poe111 i11 Three Phases in the English poetry ca tegory, along
with notable poets such as Margaret Atwood and Dennis Lee. The jury citation said Muybridge's Horse "captured, in beautiful vignettes, the astonishing life ofEadweard Muybridge. With lavish imagery, Winger evokes the emo ti onal intensity of a photographic genius caught up in the birth of a new technological era."
Winger describes his book as "a biography in verse."The fictional work is based on the life of the renowned but eccentri c British/ American photographer Eadweard Muybridge. " He was working on photography at a time when you had to be a chemist to take pictures because negatives weren't invented yet," says Winger. "I've always been interested in photographic representation, what it means, and there was just something strange an d intriguing about Muybridge,"Winger says. " I worked on M11ybridge~ Horse for four or five years, most intensively while at U of G." His thesis supervisor was Prof Janice Ku lyk Keefer, herself a three-time nominee and 197 4 recipient of a Governor General's Award. In 2003, Winger won first prize in the CBC Radio Literary Awards for an excerpt from the long poem. He teaches English at Carleton University in Ottawa and is also a doctoral ca ndidate in Carleton's Institute for Comparative Studies in Literature,Art and C ulture. His PhD dissertation will focus on the study of the rise of the postmodern Canadian long poem during the 1970s.
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of G grad uates Alvin Rebick, ADA '76, and Ralph Giovinazzo, BA '91, are competitors of sorts, eac h owning a fine-dining restaurant in Guelph, but they share the distinction of being reviewed in the prestigious Where to Eat i11 Ca11ada restaurant guid e. The guide, which has been pub-
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lished annu ally for 37 years by Oberon Press, guarantees every restaurant has been personally tested by the reviewer, whose id entity is not revealed. Rebick owns Bistro Six with his wife, Glenna. They've been in the restaurant business for almost 30 years and feature regular music and art
events at Bistro Six, located on H arvard Road at Gordon Street. Giovinazzo co-owns La Cucina with Maurice Vidotto. Where to Eat i11 Canada describes their downtown Italian restaurant as a hidden gem. T he menu is "authenti c, and all the dishes are carefully cooked and attractively presented."