Roo Borson
Canadian poet
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Ruth "Roo" Elizabeth 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[when?] 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.[citation needed]
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