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.
Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry
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
Recipients of the Pat Lowther Award
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