Alexandra Oliver
Alexandra Oliver | |
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| Born | Alexandra Edith Amelia Oliver 1970 (age 53–54) Vancouver |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Period | 1990s-present |
| Notable works | Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway |
| Spouse | Dragan Basekic |
| Website | |
| Official website | |
Alexandra Oliver (born 1970) is a Canadian poet, who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2014 for her collection Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway.[1][2]
A graduate of the University of Toronto, the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing, and McMaster University, from which she earned a PhD in English in 2022, Oliver began as a Vancouver-based slam poet in the early 1990s,[3] and appeared in the 1998 documentary film SlamNation.[4]
Bibliography
- Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (2013)[4]
- Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, co-editor with Annie Finch (2015)[5]
- Let the Empire Down (2016)[6]
- On the Oven Sits a Maiden (chapbook) (2018)[5]
- Hail the Invisible Watchman (2022)[7]
References
- ^ "Anne Compton, Alexandra Oliver, Murray Reiss win League of Canadian Poets awards". Quill & Quire, June 9, 2014.
- ^ "The Outlier". The Walrus, June 9, 2016. Accessed August 12, 2020.
- ^ "Hot Shots of '93: They're young and they're dazzling". Vancouver Sun, May 8, 1993.
- ^ a b "Michael Lista, On Poetry: Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway, by Alexandra Oliver". National Post, November 15, 2013.
- ^ a b Alexandra Basekic. McMaster University Faculty of Humanities. Accessed August 12, 2020.
- ^ "Measured Pleasures: Alexandra Oliver's Let the Empire Down". Arc Poetry Magazine, May 14, 2017. Accessed August 12, 2020.
- ^ Hail, the Invisible Watchman
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