Alexandra Oliver
Canadian poet (born 1970)
Alexandra Oliver | |
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Born | Alexandra Edith Amelia Oliver 1970 (age 53–54) Vancouver |
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 1990s-present |
Notable works | Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway |
Spouse | Dragan Basekic |
Website | |
Official website |
Alexandra Oliver (born 1970) is a Canadian poet, who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2014 for her collection Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway.[1][2]
A graduate of the University of Toronto, the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing, and McMaster University, from which she earned a PhD in English in 2022, Oliver began as a Vancouver-based slam poet in the early 1990s,[3] and appeared in the 1998 documentary film SlamNation.[4]
Bibliography
- Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (2013)[4]
- Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, co-editor with Annie Finch (2015)[5]
- Let the Empire Down (2016)[6]
- On the Oven Sits a Maiden (chapbook) (2018)[5]
- Hail the Invisible Watchman (2022)[7]
References
- ^ "Anne Compton, Alexandra Oliver, Murray Reiss win League of Canadian Poets awards". Quill & Quire, June 9, 2014.
- ^ "The Outlier". The Walrus, June 9, 2016. Accessed August 12, 2020.
- ^ "Hot Shots of '93: They're young and they're dazzling". Vancouver Sun, May 8, 1993.
- ^ a b "Michael Lista, On Poetry: Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway, by Alexandra Oliver". National Post, November 15, 2013.
- ^ a b Alexandra Basekic. McMaster University Faculty of Humanities. Accessed August 12, 2020.
- ^ "Measured Pleasures: Alexandra Oliver's Let the Empire Down". Arc Poetry Magazine, May 14, 2017. Accessed August 12, 2020.
- ^ Hail, the Invisible Watchman
External links
- Official website
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Recipients of the Pat Lowther Award
- M. Travis Lane (1981)
- Rona Murray (1982)
- Rhea Tregebov (1983)
- Bronwen Wallace (1984)
- Paulette Jiles (1985)
- Erín Moure (1986)
- Heather Spears (1987)
- Gwendolyn MacEwen (1988)
- Heather Spears (1989)
- Patricia Young (1990)
- Karen Connelly (1991)
- Kate Braid (1992)
- Lorna Crozier (1993)
- Diana Brebner (1994)
- Beth Goobie (1995)
- Lorna Crozier (1996)
- Marilyn Bowering (1997)
- Barbara Nickel (1998)
- Hilary Clark (1999)
- Esta Spalding (2000)
- Sharon Thesen (2001)
- Heather Spears (2002)
- Dionne Brand (2003)
- Betsy Struthers (2004)
- Roo Borson (2005)
- Sylvia Legris (2006)
- Sina Queyras (2007)
- Anne Simpson (2008)
- Alice Major (2009)
- Karen Solie (2010)
- Evelyn Lau (2011)
- Susan Goyette (2012)
- Rachel Rose (2013)
- Alexandra Oliver (2014)
- Sina Queyras (2015)
- Lorna Crozier (2016)
- Sue Sinclair (2017)
- Lesley Belleau (2018)
- Klara du Plessis (2019)
- Chantal Gibson (2020)
- Noor Naga (2021)
- Selina Boan (2022)
- Gillian Sze (2023)
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