Canadian
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poet and professor of creative writing at
Concordia University
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,
Montreal
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.
History
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (1991) and a Master of Fine Arts (1994) from the
University of British Columbia
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. Her first book, ''White Stone: The Alice Poems'', won the
Governor General's Award
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for poetry in 1998. Bolster's current project, "Long Exposure", is a book-length poem that takes as its starting point Robert Polidori's post-disaster photographs of New Orleans and Chernobyl.
In 2004, Bolster edited and published ''The Ishtar Gate'', featuring the poetry of Dutch-Canadian poet
Diana Brebner
(Jennivien) Diana Brebner (May 20, 1956 – April 29, 2001) was a Canadian poet. She was a recipient of the Archibald Lampman Award.
Life
Diana Brebner was the eldest daughter of Dutch immigrants and grew up in a suburb of Montreal, Quebec. She w ...
. Bolster also acknowledged the support of Hendrika Ruger in previously publishing Brebner's work in years prior.
Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award
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The Malahat Review
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Long Poem Prize
*1998
Governor General's Award
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Th ...
Gerald Lampert Award The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets to the best volume of poetry published by a first-time poet. It is presented in honour of poetry promoter Gerald Lampert
Gerald Lampert (c. 1924 - April 29, 1978) w ...
*2000
Lampman-Scott Award
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History
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*2003 Great Blue Heron Poetry Competition,
The Antigonish Review
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Works
Poetry
*''Three Bloody Words'' (above/ground press, Ottawa, 1996). Chapbook, published in edition of 300.
*''Inside A Tent of Skin: 9 Poems from the National Gallery of Ottawa.'' ( Mother Tongue Press, 1998). Limited edition chapbook.
*''White Stone: The Alice Poems'' ( Véhicule Editions, 1998).
*''Two Bowls of Milk'' (
McClelland & Stewart
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, 1999).
*''Pavilion'' (
McClelland & Stewart
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, 2002).
*''A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth'' (Brick Books, London, ON, 2011).
*''Three Bloody Words: Twentieth Anniversary Edition'' (above/ground press, Ottawa, 2016).
Edited works
*The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems, Diana Brebner, edited and with an introduction by Stephanie Bolster. Montréal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press,
Hugh MacLennan
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Family and childhood
MacLennan was born in Glace B ...
Poetry Series, 2004.
*The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008, edited by Stephanie Bolster, series/advisory editor
Molly Peacock
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Career
Peacock's latest book is Flower Diary ...
Katia Grubisic
Katia Grubisic (born April 25, 1978, in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian writer, editor and translator.
Biography
Katia Grubisic completed French and English literature degrees at the University of New Brunswick, and received her master's degree f ...
Véhicule Press
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 ...
, 2009.
*Global Poetry Anthology, edited by
Valerie Bloom
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Fred D'Aguiar
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Life
Fred D'Aguiar was born in London, England, in 1960 t ...
Sinéad Morrissey
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Eric Ormsby
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, and
Anand Thakore Anand Thakore (born 17 February 1971) is a poet and Hindustani classical vocalist. ''Elephant Bathing'' (Poetrywala, 2012), ''Mughal Sequence'' (Poetrywala, 2012) and ''Waking in December'' (Harbour Line, 2001) are his three collections of verse. ...
. Montreal: Signal Editions/
Véhicule Press
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 ...