Roxanna Bennett
Roxanna Bennett is a Canadian poet, whose 2019 collection Unmeaningable won the Raymond Souster Award[1] and the Trillium Book Award for English Poetry[2] in 2020.
Unmeaningable was also shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, and their 2021 collection The Untranslatable I was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2021 Governor General's Awards.[3] The Untranslatable I was a finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award for Poetry[4] and won the League of Canadian Poets' Raymond Souster Award.[5]
Based in Whitby, Ontario,[6] Bennett's poetry centres on disability.[7]
Works
[edit]- The Uncertainty Principle (2014)
- the unseen garden (2018)
- Unmeaningable (2019)
- The Untranslatable I (2021)
References
[edit]- ↑ Dana Gee, "Vancouver poet scores national prize". Vancouver Sun, May 11, 2020.
- ↑ Ryan Porter, "Téa Mutonji, Roxanna Bennett win 2020 Trillium Book Awards". Quill & Quire, June 17, 2020.
- ↑ "Ivan Coyote, David A. Robertson & Julie Flett among finalists for $25K Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books, October 14, 2021.
- ↑ "Ontario authors Brian Francis, Liz Howard & Ann Shin among finalists for the 2022 Trillium Book Awards". CBC. 2022-05-10. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
- ↑ Drudi, Cassandra (2022-05-05). "League of Canadian Poets announces 2022 awards winners - Quill and Quire". Quill and Quire. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
- ↑ Jane van Koeverden, "Chantal Gibson, Heather Birrell, Roxanna Bennett & Charlie C Petch winners of top Canadian poetry prizes". CBC Books, May 11, 2020.
- ↑ Robert Colman, "Breaking Past the Normative: A review of Roxanna Bennett's 'Unmeaningable' and Tom Prime and Gary Barwin's 'A Cemetery for Holes'". Prism International, February 20, 2020.
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