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Sandy Pool
Sandy Pool is a Canadian poet, editor and professor of creative writing. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections and a chapbook published by Vallum Editions. Her first collection, Exploding Into Night (Guernica Editions) was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. Her second full-length collection, Undark: An Oratorio (Nightwood Editions) was nominated for a Trillium Book Award for the best book of poetry in the province of Ontario, an Alberta Book Award and the Toronto Emerging Artist award administered by the Toronto Arts Foundation. A selection from Undark: An Oratorio was also printed in The Best Canadian Poems 2011, published by Tightrope Books. Sandy also writes for the screen and the stage. Her most recent project, a series of librettos were performed by Tapestry New Opera Works in Toronto, and featured on NPR radio. Her writing has been translated into French, Spanish and Japanese, and appears in more than 50 magazines, journals and anthologies in the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan. Some of these publications include The Cordite Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Arc Magazine, and The Capilano Review.…
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Sandy Pool is a Canadian poet, editor and professor of creative writing. She is the author of two full-length poetry collections and a chapbook published by Vallum Editions. Her first collection, Exploding Into Night (Guernica Editions) was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English language poetry at the 2010 Governor General's Awards. Her second full-length collection, Undark: An Oratorio (Nightwood Editions) was nominated for a Trillium Book Award for the best book of poetry in the province of Ontario, an Alberta Book Award and the Toronto Emerging Artist award administered by the Toronto Arts Foundation. A selection from Undark: An Oratorio was also printed in The Best Canadian Poems 2011, published by Tightrope Books. Sandy also writes for the screen and the stage. Her most recent project, a series of librettos were performed by Tapestry New Opera Works in Toronto, and featured on NPR radio. Her writing has been translated into French, Spanish and Japanese, and appears in more than 50 magazines, journals and anthologies in the United States, Canada, Australia and Japan. Some of these publications include The Cordite Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Arc Magazine, and The Capilano Review.…
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