Lisa Robertson

Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet and essayist currently living in France. Born in Toronto in 1961, she was a longtime resident of Vancouver, where in the early 90s she began writing, publishing and collaborating in a community of artists and poets that included Artspeak Gallery and The Kootenay School of Writing. She has continued these activities for 30 years, publishing books, leaflets and posters, translating poetry and linguistics from French, lecturing and teaching internationally, and continuing her ongoing study into the political constitution of lyric voice. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and in 2018, the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in NY awarded her the inaugural CD Wright Award in Poetry. She has taught at Cambridge University, Princeton, UC Berkeley, California College of the Arts, Piet Zwart Institute, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and American University of Paris, as well as holding research and residency positions at institutions across Canada, the US, and Europe.

Books by Lisa Robertson

Boat

Nilling

The Baudelaire Fractal

3 Summers

Negative Space

Cinema of the Present

Elspeth Pratt

Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip

The Apothecary

Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture

The Griffin Poetry Prize 2006 Anthology

The Men

Allyson Clay

The Weather

XEclogue

Debbie: An Epic