Lisa Robertson

Lisa Robertson
Born (1961-07-22)July 22, 1961
Toronto, Canada
Occupation Poet, professor
Language English
Nationality Canadian
Genre Poetry, essay

Lisa Robertson (born July 22, 1961 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian poet. She lived for many years in Vancouver, briefly in Oakland, California, and currently lives in France.[1][2]

Life and work

In 1979, Robertson moved to British Columbia, where she remained for twenty-three years. During her time there, she was a member of The Kootenay School of Writing, which is a writer-run collective, and Artspeak Gallery. Her first book was a chapbook, The Apothecary, published by Tsunami Editions in 1991.[3] Since then she has published seven books of poetry and two books of essays.

Robertson studied at Simon Fraser University[4] (1984–1988), then left the university to become an independent bookseller (1988–1994). Since 1995 she has been a freelance writer and teacher. Her many essays on the contemporary visual arts, published in gallery and museum catalogues since the mid-1990s, are collected in her 2003 book Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture.

In 2006, Robertson was a judge of the Griffin Poetry Prize and Holloway poet-in-residence at UC Berkeley.[4] From 2007 to 2010 she taught at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. In Fall 2010 she was writer-in-residence at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Robertson is a writing tutor in the Master of Fine Arts program at Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.[5] In Spring 2014 she was the Bain Swigget lecturer in Poetry at Princeton University.[6]

Selected bibliography

Selected essays

Selected interviews and conversations

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Editor1 (2013-05-19). "Andy Fitch with Lisa Robertson". The Conversant. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
  2. 1 2 "BookThug Publishing - Nilling by Lisa Robertson, Lisa Robertson". Bookthug.ca. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
  3. 1 2 "BookThug Publishing - The Apothecary by Lisa Robertson, Launch Packages". Bookthug.ca. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
  4. 1 2 "Lisa Robertson". The Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
  5. ↑ Rusty Talk. "Lisa Robertson: Poet". The Rusty Toque. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
  6. ↑ "Lisa M Robertson | Department of English". English.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
  7. ↑ "Cinema of the Present | Coach House Books". Chbooks.com. Retrieved 2014-07-04.
  8. ↑ "Robertson, Lisa". Dcpoetry.com. Retrieved 2011-07-02.

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See also

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