Roxanna Bennett is a Canadian poet, whose 2019 collection Unmeaningable won the Raymond Souster AwardDana Gee, "Vancouver poet scores national prize". Vancouver Sun, May 11, 2020. and the Trillium Book Award for English PoetryRyan Porter, "Téa Mutonji, Roxanna Bennett win 2020 Trillium Book Awards". Quill & Quire, June 17, 2020. in 2020.
Unmeaningable was also shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award, and their 2021 collection The Untranslatable I was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2021 Governor General's Awards."Ivan Coyote, David A. Robertson & Julie Flett among finalists for $25K Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books, October 14, 2021. The Untranslatable I was a finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and won the League of Canadian Poets' Raymond Souster Award.
Based in Whitby, Ontario,Jane van Koeverden, "Chantal Gibson, Heather Birrell, Roxanna Bennett & Charlie C Petch winners of top Canadian poetry prizes". CBC Books, May 11, 2020. Bennett's poetry centres on disability.Robert Colman, "Breaking Past the Normative: A review of Roxanna Bennett's 'Unmeaningable' and Tom Prime and Gary Barwin's 'A Cemetery for Holes'". Prism International, February 20, 2020.
Works The Uncertainty Principle (2014) the unseen garden (2018) Unmeaningable (2019) The Untranslatable I (2021)
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