Di Brandt

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Di Brandt (born 31 January 1952) is a Canadian poet and scholar from Winnipeg, Manitoba.[1] She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018.[2]

Life and career[]

Brandt grew up in Reinland, a Mennonite farming village in southern Manitoba near Winkler.[3] Her first volume of poetry questions i asked my mother was published by Turnstone Press in 1987. Since then she has published seven more volumes of poetry, as well as literary criticism. Brandt has degrees from the University of Manitoba and University of Toronto and has also taught Canadian literature and creative writing.[4] She was poetry editor at Prairie Fire Magazine and Contemporary Verse 2 during the 1980s and 90s. She also served as Manitoba and Prairie Rep at the League of Canadian Poets National Council and the Writers' Union of Canada National Council.

Bibliography[]

Poetry:

  • SHE: Poems inspired by Laozi, with ink drawings by Lin Xu (Brandon, MB: Radish Press, 2012). Chapbook.
  • The Lottery of History (Brandon, MB: Radish Press, 2008). Chapbook.
  • Walking to Mojacar, with French and Spanish translations by Charles Leblanc and Ari Belathar (Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2010),
  • Now You Care (Toronto: Coach House Press, 2003),
  • Jerusalem, beloved (Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1995),
  • mother, not mother (Toronto: Mercury Press, 1992),
  • Agnes in the sky (Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1990), and
  • questions i asked my mother (Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1987).

Essays:

  • So this is the world & here I am in it (Edmonton: NeWest Press 2007).
  • Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries (Toronto: Mercury Press 1996).
  • Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature (Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press 1993).
  • Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2011), ed. with Barbara Godard.
  • Re:Generations: Canadian Women Poets in Conversation (Windsor, ON: 2006), ed. with Barbara Godard.

Collaborations:

  • Awakenings: In Four Voices, a collaborative poetry/music audiorecording (CD) with Dorothy Livesay (posthumously), Carol Ann Weaver and Rebecca Campbell (2003).
  • Emily, The Way you Are, a one-woman chamber opera about the life and work of Emily Carr, with musical score by , premiered at the McMichael Gallery in Kleinburg, ON, in 2011, featuring mezzo-soprano and the directed by Gary Kulesha.
  • Coyotes do not carry her away, a musical setting of Di Brandt's poems, by Manitoba composer Kenneth Nichols, commissioned by the Brandon Chamber Society and premiered at Brandon City Hall in 2012, featuring (soprano), (clarinet) and (harp).
  • Watermelon Syrup: A Novel with Annie Jacobsen and .

Awards and Recognition[]

  • Gerald Lampert Award for "best first book of poetry in Canada," for questions i asked my mother.
  • for Agnes in the sky.
  • for Jerusalem, beloved.
  • for Watermelon Syrup.
  • for "best book of literary criticism in Canada," with Barbara Godard, for Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women's Poetry.
  • 2011.
  • Canada Research Chair in Literature and Creative Writing, Brandon University, 2005–2011.
  • SSHRC Research Fellow, University of Alberta, 1996–1998.
  • Research Excellence Award, University of Windsor, 2006.
  • Gold Medal for Exceptional Service to Brandon University, 2009.
  • Research Fellow, Ledig House, New York, 2004.
  • Research Fellow, Hawthornden Castle, Scotland, 1999.
  • Research Fellow, Chateau de Lavigny, Switzerland, 2001.
  • Research Fellow, Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain, 2006.
  • nomination, for questions i asked my mother.
  • nomination, for Jerusalem, beloved.
  • Griffin Poetry Prize 2004 shortlist, for Now You Care.[5]
  • for Now You Care.
  • Pat Lowther Award for "best book of poetry by a Canadian woman, nomination, for mother, not mother.
  • Pat Lowther Award nomination, for Jerusalem, beloved.
  • Pat Lowther Award nomination, for Now You Care.
  • nomination, for So this is the world & here I am in it.
  • nomination, for Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature.
  • nomination, for Walking to Mojacar, with French and Spanish translations by Charles Leblanc and Ari Belathar.

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Di Brandt". Quill and Quire. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  2. ^ Winnipeg welcomes first poet laureate - Di Brandt will make poetry relevant for Winnipeggers again (December 11, 2017) - Winnipeg Free Press
  3. ^ "Di Brandt". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved May 21, 2021.
  4. ^ Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Oxford University Press.
  5. ^ "2004 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlist-Di Brandt". Retrieved 13 August 2018.

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