Canadian-born experimental poet Lisa Robertson has won the first C.S. Wright Award for Poetry, a $40,000 U.S. prize administered by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
Robertson, who is now based in France, is the author of eight poetry collections, including Debbie: An Epic (New Star Books, 2007), which was nominated for a 2008 Governor General’s Literary Award. She released three titles with Book*hug: The Apothecary, The Men, and Nillin. Her latest, 3 Summers, was published in 2016 by Coach House Books.
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