 Maillard's novel, "Gloria" (1999), was well received in Canada, short-listed for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, and brought him national attention in the United States.Maillard also returned to his first love, poetry, and published "Dementia Americana", which won the Gerald Lampert Award for the best first book of poetry published in Canada.He became interested in the re-emergence of formal poetry in North America and commented about it in his oft-cited essay, "The New Formalism and the Return of Prosody."