2014 National Film Board of Canada multimedia short film 54 Hours on the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster, co-directed by Paton Francis and Bruce Alcock. His 2014 novel, Sweetland, was nominated for a Governor General's Award. In 2018, his play Her Mark, set in Newfoundland, was staged in Strathcona. His 2019 novel The Innocents was shortlisted for the 2019 Giller Prize, and for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. In August 2020, Telefilm Canada announced it had selected the film adaptation of Sweetland as one of its English-language feature film projects to fund. It will be directed by Christian Sparkes and filmed in Newfoundland. Bibliography Poetry Arguments With Gravity (1996) Hard Light (1998). A selection called Hard Light: 32 Little Stories was released as an audiobook in 2003, narrated by Crummey & Ron Hynes) Emergency Roadside Assistance (2001) Salvage (2002) Under the Keel (2013) Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems (2016) Passengers (2022) Short stories Flesh and Blood (1998, expanded edition 2003) Novels River Thieves (2001) The Wreckage (2005) Galore (2009) Sweetland (2014) The Innocents (Penguin Random House, 2019) Non-fiction Newfoundland: Journey Into a Lost Nation (with photographer Greg Locke) (2004) Most of What Follows is True: Places Imagined and Real (University of Alberta Press, 2019) Anthologies The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry (Breakwater, 2013) The Harbrace Anthology of Poetry, 5th Edition (Nelson, 2012) The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, selected and introduced by Jane Urquhart (Penguin Books, 2007) The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry (Signal Editions, 2006) Canadian Short Stories (Penguin Books, 2004) Victory Meat (Doubleday Canada, 2003) Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada, ed. Anne Compton, Laurence Hutchman, Ross Leckie and Robin McGrath (Goose Lane Editions, 2002) Further reading Jennifer Bowering Delisle: The present of the past, in Ten Canadian Writers in Context. Dir. Curtis Gillespie, Marie J. Carrière, Jason Purcell. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton 2016, pp 37 – 56 (incl. excerpt from Sweetland, pp 46 – 56). Also in Google books References 1965 births Living people Canadian male novelists 20th-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian male writers Canadian male poets 21st-century Canadian poets 20th-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian novelists Canadian male short story writers People from Buchans Writers from Newfoundland and Labrador Memorial University of Newfoundland alumni 20th-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian male writers