Roo Borson has published eleven books of poems, including Short Journey Upriver Toward ishida (2004), winner of the Governor General's Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, and, most recently, Rain; road; an open boat (2012). She has also won awards for her essays, and, with Kim Maltman, writes collaboratively under the pen name Baziju. She lives in Toronto.
"Praise for Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishidia: ""Roo Borson invites us to embark on a meditative, imaginative and spiritual journey. This book has a profound inner life. It is resonant and whole, moving with quiet, apparently easy steps into the depth of human experience."" -- Jury citation, Governor General's Award ""This is the work of a poet writing at the height of her powers. It is a poetic journal of mortality, ... of entering middle age, and of journeying through landscape, seasons, plants, pasts, to find it again. The book is a small perfection in its construction, moving deftly through seasons and forms...."" -- Jury citation, Griffin Poetry Prize"