Canadian poet
Ruth Elizabeth Borson , who writes under the name Roo Borson (born January 20, 1952, in Berkeley, California ) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto . After undergraduate studies at UC Santa Barbara and Goddard College , she received an MFA from the University of British Columbia .[ 1]
She has received many awards for her work, including the Governor General's Literary Award , 2004, and the Griffin Poetry Prize , 2005 for Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida. She currently lives in Toronto with poet Kim Maltman , and with Kim Maltman and Andy Patton is a member of the collaborative performance poetry ensemble Pain Not Bread.
Works
Landfall (1977), ISBN 0-920110-32-0
Rain (1980), ISBN 0-920806-19-8
In the Smoky Light of the Fields (1980), ISBN 0-88823-024-9
A Sad Device (1981), ISBN 0-86495-011-X
The Whole Night, Coming Home (1984), ISBN 0-7710-1579-8 (nominated for a Governor General's Award )
The Transparence of November / Snow (1985), ISBN 0-919627-30-7 (with Kim Maltman )
Intent, or, The Weight of the World (1989), ISBN 0-7710-1588-7
Night Walk (1994), ISBN 0-19-541082-3 (nominated for a Governor General's Award )
Water Memory (1996), ISBN 0-7710-1589-5
Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei (2000), ISBN 1-894078-09-8 (by Pain Not Bread )
Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (2004), ISBN 0-7710-1591-7 (winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award , the 2005 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2005 Pat Lowther Award )
Personal History (2008) ISBN 1-897141-21-1
Rain; road; an open boat (2012), ISBN 0-7710-1298-5
Box Kite: Prose Poems by Baziju (2016), ISBN 9781770899629 (with Kim Maltman)
Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar (2017), ISBN 978-0771012242
References
External links
1980s 1990s
Margaret Avison , No Time (1990)
Don McKay , Night Field (1991)
Lorna Crozier , Inventing the Hawk (1992)
Don Coles , Forests of the Medieval World (1993)
Robert Hilles , Cantos from a Small Room (1994)
Anne Szumigalski , Voice (1995)
E. D. Blodgett , Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996)
Dionne Brand , Land to Light On (1997)
Stephanie Bolster , White Stone: The Alice Poems (1998)
Jan Zwicky , Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (1999)
2000s
Don McKay , Another Gravity (2000)
George Elliott Clarke , Execution Poems (2001)
Roy Miki , Surrender (2002)
Tim Lilburn , Kill-site (2003)
Roo Borson , Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (2004)
Anne Compton , processional (2005)
John Pass , Stumbling in the Bloom (2006)
Don Domanski , All Our Wonder Unavenged (2007)
Jacob Scheier , More to Keep Us Warm (2008)
David Zieroth , The Fly in Autumn (2009)
2010s
Richard Greene , Boxing the Compass (2010)
Phil Hall , Killdeer (2011)
Julie Bruck , Monkey Ranch (2012)
Katherena Vermette , North End Love Songs (2013)
Arleen Paré , Lake of Two Mountains (2014)
Robyn Sarah , My Shoes Are Killing Me (2015)
Steven Heighton , The Waking Comes Late (2016)
Richard Harrison , On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood (2017)
Cecily Nicholson , Wayside Sang (2018)
Gwen Benaway , Holy Wild (2019)
2020s
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