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Rain song roo borson biography

          Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson (born January 20, , in Berkeley, California) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto.

        1. ROO BORSON has published fifteen books of poems, including Rain; road; an open boat, Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar, and Short Journey Upriver Toward.
        2. Born in Berkeley, California, Roo Borson moved to Canada to attend the University of British Columbia in the s.
        3. Born in California in , Roo Borson has made her home in Canada since graduating with a Master of Fine Arts Degree from the University of British Columbia.
        4. We can think of poetry then, as the hidden space of ourselves: the song of ourselves – to approximate Walt Whitman's epiphanic.

          5. Born in Berkeley, California, Roo Borson moved to Canada to attend the University of British Columbia in the s.!

          Roo Borson

          Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry

          1980s
          • F.

            R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott (1981)

          • Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems (1982)
          • David Donnell, Settlements (1983)
          • Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation (1984)
          • Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan (1985)
          • Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (1986)
          • Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds (1987)
          • Erín Moure, Furious (1988)
          • Heather Spears, The Word for Sand (1989)
          1990s
          • Margaret Avison, No Time (1990)
          • Don McKay, Night Field (1991)
          • Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk (1992)
          • Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World (1993)
          • Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room (1994)
          • Anne Szumigalski, Voice (1995)
          • E.

            D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996)

          • Dionne Brand, Land to Light On (1997)
          • Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems (1998)
          • Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (1999)
          2000s
          • D