Sylvia Legris [SEP] date of birth
Sylvia Legris
Sylvia Legris (born 1960) is a Canadian poet. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. She has published four volumes of poetry, the third of which, "Nerve Squall", won the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize and Pat Lowther Award, and the fourth of which was published by New Directions.
Legris has also twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has been nominated for Best of the Small Presses Series, and in 2001 won "The Malahat Review
the Saskatchewan Book Award
- "Iridium Seeds" (Turnstone Press 1998)
- "Circuitry of Veins" (Turnstone Press 1996)
- "ash petals" (chapbook 1996)
External links.
- Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio clip
- "Globe and Mail" interview - A Poet’s Winning Season, by Patricia Robertson
- "The Danforth Review" - review of "Nerve Squall"
- RCI's "Spotlight" (CBC) interview with Sylvia Legris
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