Stephanie Bolster (born 1969)[1] is a Canadian poet and professor of creative writing at Concordia University, Montreal.[2]

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She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (1991) and a Master of Fine Arts (1994) from the University of British Columbia.[3][4] Her first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems, won the Governor General's Award 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.[5]

In 2004, Bolster edited and published The Ishtar Gate, featuring the poetry of Dutch-Canadian poet Diana Brebner.[6] Bolster also acknowledged the support of Hendrika Ruger in previously publishing Brebner's work in years prior.[7]

Awards

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Works

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Poetry

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  • 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, 1999).
  • Pavilion (McClelland & Stewart, 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

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References

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  1. ^ Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-century Poetry, p 315, Blackwell Publishing, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4051-1361-8, retrieved via Google Books, January 3, 2009
  2. ^ McArthur Mooney, Jacob (2013). "Stephanie Bolster". Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  3. ^ Brock University, Canadian Women Poets
  4. ^ University of British Columbia, UBC Centennial
  5. ^ "Faculty". www.concordia.ca. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  6. ^ "Ishtar Gate, The | McGill-Queen's University Press". www.mqup.ca. Retrieved 2020-04-09.
  7. ^ Brebner, Diana (2004). Bolster, Stephanie (ed.). The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems. McGill-Queens University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0773528352.
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