Lynn Davies (born 1954) is a Canadian poet.Nicholas Learmouth
"Lynn Davies"
''New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia'', 2009. She is most noted for her poetry collection ''The Bridge that Carries the Road'', which was shortlisted for the

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and for the

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in 2000. Born in

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and raised in

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, Davies travelled abroad for two years after high school and then wrote a weekly travel column for a New Brunswick-based magazine before attending the

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. She was subsequently a writer for publications such as ''

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'', ''Nature Canada'', '' Outdoor Canada'', ''Arts Atlantic'' and ''

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''. She attended the Maritime Writers' Workshop in the 1990s, and began writing poetry only after being told by her classmates that her prose writing had a poetic quality. ''The Bridge that Carries the Road'', her debut collection, was published in 1999. She followed up with the collections ''Where Sound Pools'' in 2005, and ''how the gods pour tea'' in 2013.Linda Hersey, "Lynn Davies infuses poetry with humour". ''

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'', November 1, 2013.

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