Marianne Bluger


Marianne Bluger was a Canadian poet. She was a recipient of the Archibald Lampman Award.

Life

She graduated with distinction from McGill University where she studied pre-medical subjects and philosophy as well as taking poetry courses with Louis Dudek.
She later dropped out of medical school to marry a Zen Master Samu Kim of Toronto. They had two children: Michael "Maji" Kim, and Micheline "Agi" Mallory. She married Larry Neily, in 1991.
She was executive secretary – treasurer of the Canadian Writers' Foundation, from 1975 to 2000.
She co-founded Christians Against Apartheid, and the Tabitha Foundation.

Awards

Anthologies

Reviews

Marianne Bluger's seventh book, Scissor, Paper, Woman, invests in images so precise they resound far beyond the pages that contain them.