Alexandra Oliver

Alexandra Oliver (born 1970) is a Canadian poet, who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2014 for her collection Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway.[1][2]

Alexandra Oliver
Born1970
Vancouver
OccupationPoet
NationalityCanadian
Period1990s-present
Notable worksMeeting the Tormentors in Safeway
Website
Official website

A graduate of the University of Toronto and the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing, Oliver began as a Vancouver-based slam poet in the early 1990s,[3] and appeared in the 1998 documentary film SlamNation.[4]

Bibliography
  • Where the English Housewife Shines (2007)[5]
  • Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (2013)[4]
  • Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, co-editor with Annie Finch (2015)[6]
  • Let the Empire Down (2016)[7]
  • On the Oven Sits a Maiden (chapbook) (2018)[8]
gollark: I ask them what this involves, as they appear to be retaining the shop anyway.
gollark: I ask them what they would be doing instead of talking to me, then, if I am apparently "wasting“ their time.
gollark: Do you NOT know of electric motors?
gollark: But I have a lower bound on it.
gollark: Knowledge of generic monster #1 health and damage?

References
  1. "Anne Compton, Alexandra Oliver, Murray Reiss win League of Canadian Poets awards". Quill & Quire, June 9, 2014.
  2. "The Outlier". The Walrus, June 9, 2016. Accessed August 12, 2020.
  3. "Hot Shots of '93: They're young and they're dazzling". Vancouver Sun, May 8, 1993.
  4. "Michael Lista, On Poetry: Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway, by Alexandra Oliver". National Post, November 15, 2013.
  5. "The wholesome rebel". The Province, May 6, 2007.
  6. Alexandra Basekic. McMaster University Faculty of Humanities. Accessed August 12, 2020.
  7. "Measured Pleasures: Alexandra Oliver's Let the Empire Down". Arc Poetry Magazine, May 14, 2017. Accessed August 12, 2020.
  8. Alexandra Basekic. McMaster University Faculty of Humanities. Accessed August 12, 2020.



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