Di Brandt, 2023 Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction
Manitoba Arts Council is pleased to announce that Di Brandt is the winner of the 2023 Manitoba Arts Award of Distinction! Di Brandt is a poet, essayist, educator, editor, and fiction-writer based in Winnipeg. She has authored thirteen poetry and essay collections and countless publications in anthologies and magazines both national and international. She has served as poetry editor for Manitoba-based magazines Prairie Fire and Contemporary Verse 2 and was selected as Winnipeg’s inaugural Poet Laureate for 2018-2020. Among her many accomplishments, Di was awarded the Gold National Magazine Award for Poetry for 2020. In 2021, she received an Honorary Doctorate of the University from Grant McEwen University.
Sweetest Dance On Earth, The
New and Selected
questions I asked my mother
So this is the world & Here I am in it
Speaking of Power
The Poetry of Di Brandt
Now You Care
Jerusalem Beloved
Agnes in the sky
Wild Mother Dancing
Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature
Dancing Naked
Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries
Watermelon Syrup
A Novel
Glitter and Fall
Wider Boundaries of Daring
The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry