Nominee, Governor General's Award (youngest person to be nominated for a GG)Winner, Alfred G Bailey Award for Poetry (New Brunswick)Section from Bogman's Music shortlisted for the Acorn Rukeyser Chapbook ContestBogman's Music is a debut collection of poetry that is both elegiac and sensitive in its exploration of family dynamics, the enduring power of childhood experience, and the healing ability of faith and love.Praise for Bogman's Music:"This collection of lyric poetry is a startingly beautiful debut, both exhilaratingly personable and incandescently detailed in its imagery. This work offers an astonishingly deft vision of natural and human environments, and experiences passionately lived." (Canada Council Governor General's Award Jury Comments)"Tammy Armstrong's first collection of poems establishes a strong lyrical (predominantly first-person) voice that transforms biography through illumination of the cracks, crags, and roughness of human relationships and experience." (Canadian Literature)"These are lovely poems, heartfelt, mature, searching and visceral . teeming with stunning images and metaphors . inventive and apt writing graces the entire manuscript." (Tim Bowling, author of Low Water Slack, Dying Scarlet, The Thin Smoke of the Heart).