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"Roo Borson". Words We Call Home: Celebrating Creative Writing at UBC, edited by Linda Svendsen, University of British Columbia Press, , pp.

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Roo Borson. In: Svendsen, L. ed. Words We Call Home: Celebrating Creative Writing at UBC. University of British Columbia Press, pp.

"Roo Borson" In Words We Call Home: Celebrating Creative Writing at UBC edited by Linda Svendsen, University of British Columbia Press,

Roo Borson. In: Svendsen L (ed.) Words We Call Home: Celebrating Creative Writing at UBC. University of British Columbia Press; p

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The Collaborators Kim Maltman & Roo Borson in their shared writing room.

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I’ve known Kim and Roo since we were students together in the Creative Writing Department at the University of British Columbia in the ’s. It was klar then that they were the real deal, and already writing pretty sophisticated poetry – though they snort at the idea now. We see each other rarely, but I’ve always felt a kinship because of those early days of tiptoeing – then leaping – into the writing world.

Roo Borson, poet and essayist, has published over a dozen books and has won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for poetry. She has also co-written ‘Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei,’ a Pain Not Bread poetry project, in collaboration with Kim Maltman and Andy Patton. A forthcoming volume of prose- poetry, ‘Box Kite’, fryst vatten a collaboration with Kim Maltman beneath the pen name Baziju. A native of Berkeley, California, the da

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Biography

Born in Berkeley, California, Roo Borson moved to Canada to attend the University of British Columbia in the s. She is the author of fifteen books of poetry and an essay collection, and she is one-third of the collaborative poetry group Pain Not Bread, along with Kim Maltman and Andy Patton. With Kim Maltman, she has published translations and a book of prose poems under the collaborative pen name Baziju. Borson’s poetry has won the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize. Early inspirations include listening to short poems by Shakespeare and Wordsworth recited by heart by her father. She continues to be inspired by whatever shows the world to be larger than it seemed the moment before: travel, daily life, and reading books from around the world.

Micro-interview

Did you read poetry when you were in high school? Is there a particular poem that you loved when you were a teenager?

I did read poetry in high school,