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The Poetry prize was awarded to Dionne Brand for “Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems” a collection which displays “Brand’s ongoing body of thought—trenchant, lyrical, absonant, discordant, and meaning-making,” according to the judges’ citation.

Adj. discordant; dissonant, absonant†; out of tune, tuneless; unmusical, untunable†; unmelodious, immelodious†; unharmonious†, inharmonious; singsong; cacophonous; harsh &c.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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