Roo borson poems and quotes

Shuffling round the block with the dog around five, I peer into the lives of my neighbours, before they also move shutters towards the darkness.

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I dropped out of a writers in residence with this poet and always wanted to apologize and thank, only 15 chosen it is something to remember.

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Night Walk: Selected Poems

July 1, 2022

I dropped out of a writers in residence with this poet and always wanted to apologize and thank, only 15 chosen it is something to remember. I'm glad I made up a portfolio, and did kinda (apologize) through another member running into them. I was just too busy. Not my style exactly I am usually drawn to more winded writers, but pretty good.

The thing with writing is there's always a lot more than an audience is privy to, kind of like a keyhole. Of what we want to show others too plus you pick and choose, if there's quite a bit, you'll get an assortment. It's how I write, dependent on things. There's good and there's bad and there's those who are more dedicated, and, there are connections. The publishing world in my opinion has been in a bit of a mess since Bob Dylan won the Literature award.

Anyhow.

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Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida

December 2, 2020

A meditative series of poems, a lyric sequence that lapses into lyric narrative and asks (the poet, the reader, the spirit of Basho perhaps) a vital question: do you still love poetry?
Softly.
The poet's voice fryst vatten mainly unobtrusive.
Mainly these poems are vibrant descriptions, that show rather than tell, that find rather than agonize about seeking.
We're in the mittpunkt of things that Borson's writing revels in -- riversides, gardens and garden paths, alive with creatures, places other poets have visited and in whose footsteps she follows, bridges. And home, various places called home.
Expect haiku and a dialogue with Basho. Forays through parts of Australia, encounters with former selves.
Unexpected delights.
Now and again, the poet's röst rejoices unabashedly in the things poetry has done and continues to do.
Then igen, the letdown. A disillusion, almost a breaking point, a faltering. The poems lapse into prose, hones

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The Collaborators Kim Maltman & Roo Borson in their shared writing room.

I’ve known Kim and Roo since we were students together in the Creative Writing Department at the University of British Columbia in the 1970’s. It was clear then that they were the real deal, and already writing pretty sophisticated poetry – though they snort at the idea now. We see each other rarely, but I’ve always felt a kinship because of those early days of tiptoeing – then leaping – into the writing world.

Roo Borson, poet and essayist, has published over a dozen books and has won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award for poetry. She has also co-written ‘Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei,’ a Pain Not Bread poetry project, in collaboration with Kim Maltman and Andy Patton. A forthcoming volume of prose- poetry, ‘Box Kite’, is a collaboration with Kim Maltman under the pen name Baziju. A native of Berkeley, California, th