Robyn Sarah
Canadian poet and short story writer (born 1949)
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| Born | 1949 New York City, New York, United States |
| Occupation | writer |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Genre | poetry, short stories |
Robyn Sarah (born 1949, in New York City) is a Canadian poet and short story writer.[1]
Raised in Montreal, Quebec, she was educated at McGill University and the Conservatoire de musique du Québec.[1] She has published several volumes of poetry and short stories, and one book of essays.[1] In addition to her writing, she has taught English literature at Champlain Regional College, and has served as a poetry editor for Cormorant Books and Porcupine's Quill.[1]
She won a CBC Literary Award for poetry in 1990,[1] and a National Magazine Award in 1994 for her short story "Accept My Story".[1] Her short story collection Promise of Shelter was a shortlisted nominee for the Quebec Writers' Federation Awards in 1998,[1] and her poetry collection My Shoes Are Killing Me won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2015.[2]
Works
Poetry
- The Space Between Sleep and Waking (1981)
- Anyone Skating on That Middle Ground (1984)
- Becoming Light (1987), ISBN 9780920953228
- The Touchstone: Poems New and Selected (1992), ISBN 9780887845284
- Questions about the Stars (1998)
- A Day's Grace (2003), ISBN 978-0-88984-233-5
- Pause for Breath (2009), ISBN 978-1-926845-82-1
- My Shoes Are Killing Me (2015), ISBN 978-1-77196-014-4
Short stories
- A Nice Gazebo (1992)
- Promise of Shelter (1997)
Essays
- Little Eurekas: A Decade's Thoughts on Poetry (2007)
References
- ^ a b c d e f g Robyn Sarah at The Canadian Encyclopedia.
- ^ "Robyn Sarah, Guy Vanderhaeghe among recipients of 2015 Governor General's Literary Awards". Montreal Gazette, October 28, 2015.
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Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry
- F. R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott (1981)
- Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems (1982)
- David Donnell, Settlements (1983)
- Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation (1984)
- Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan (1985)
- Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (1986)
- Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds (1987)
- Erín Moure, Furious (1988)
- Heather Spears, The Word for Sand (1989)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2020)
- Tolu Oloruntoba, The Junta of Happenstance (2021)
- Annick MacAskill, Shadow Blight (2022)
- Hannah Green, Xanax Cowboy (2023)
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