Roo Borson
Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. After undergraduate studies at UC Santa Barbara and Goddard College, she received an MFA from the University of British Columbia.
She has received many awards for her work, including the Governor General's Literary Award, 2004, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, 2005 for Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida. She currently lives in Toronto with poet Kim Maltman, and with Kim Maltman and Andy Patton is a member of the collaborative performance poetry ensemble Pain Not Bread.Works
- Landfall,
- Rain,
- In the Smoky Light of the Fields,
- A Sad Device,
- The Whole Night, Coming Home,
- The Transparence of November / Snow,
- Intent, or, The Weight of the World,
- Night Walk,
- Water Memory,
- Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei,
- Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida,
- Personal History
- Rain; road; an open boat,
- Box Kite: Prose Poems by Baziju,
- Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar,
