Ruth Taylor (10 January 1961 – 18 February 2006) was a

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and college teacher. Born in Lachine,

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and raised in

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, Quebec, she attended

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, and

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. Taylor was the author of three collections of poetry: ''The Drawing Board'' (1988); ''Dragon Papers'' (1994), a finalist for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry; and ''Comet Wine'' (2007), published posthumously. The language in these and most of Taylor"s poems is one of a heightened conversation, they are structurally a fusion of the formal and the contemporary. Taylor taught English literature at John Abbott College from 1986 to 2006. An active member in Montreal's literary scene since 1979. She gained notoriety as a member of the informal ''Lakeshore Poets'': ::... who came out of John Abbott College classes in the early 1980s, including Neil Henden, Ben Soo, Stephen Brockwell and Greg Lamontagne, who ended up being part of the Montreal scene as a kind of second-generation offshoot of the 1970s

The Vehicule Poets The Vehicule Poets was a collective formed in Montreal in the 1970s by poets Endre Farkas, Artie Gold, Tom Konyves, Claudia Lapp, John McAuley, Stephen Morrissey and Ken Norris, who shared an interest in experimental American poetry and Europea ...

rob mclennan's blog: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 - Ruth Taylor, 1961-2006
/ref> She died in February 2006, shortly after completing ''Comet Wine''.

Selected works

*''The Drawing Board'' — 1988 *''The Dragon Papers'' — 1994 *''Muse On!: The Muses Company Anthology 1980-1995'' — 1995 (editor) *''Comet Wine'' — 2007

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1961 births 2006 deaths 20th-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian poets Anglophone Quebec people Canadian women poets People from Lachine, Quebec McGill University alumni Concordia University alumni Writers from Montreal 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian women writers {{Canada-poet-stub