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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.

Works
Landfall (1977), • Rain (1980), • In the Smoky Light of the Fields (1980), • A Sad Device (1981), • The Whole Night, Coming Home (1984), (nominated for a Governor General's Award) • The Transparence of November / Snow (1985), (with Kim Maltman) • Intent, or, The Weight of the World (1989), • Night Walk (1994), (nominated for a Governor General's Award) • Water Memory (1996), • Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei (2000), (by Pain Not Bread) • Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (2004), (winner of the 2004 Governor General's Award, the 2005 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2005 Pat Lowther Award) • Personal History (2008) • Rain; road; an open boat (2012), • Box Kite: Prose Poems by Baziju (2016), (with Kim Maltman) • Cardinal in the Eastern White Cedar (2017), ==References==
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