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Roo Borson has published ten books of poems, most recently Short Journey Upriver Toward ishida, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Governor General's Award for Poetry, as well as a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. With Kim Maltman and Andy Patton, she is a member of the collaborative poetry group Pain Not Bread, whose first book, Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei, was published in 2000. She lives in Toronto.
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 In poetry, few things matter so much as a hungry eye, a fresh way of responding to the world... Roo Borson is a true original. - Maclean's She's become one of the best-known Canadian poets of her generation. She's a clear writer, clear-minded, with a dark and musical imagination. - Washington Post She absorbs one totally, dissolving the conventional distinctions between body, mind, and heart. - Globe and Mail To read her poetry is to make an exhilarating discovery. - Toronto Star
