{"id":1894,"count":2,"description":"Born in Berkeley, California, Roo Borson<\/strong> moved to Canada to attend the University of British Columbia in the 1970s. She is the author of fifteen books of poetry and an essay collection, and she is one-third of the collaborative poetry group Pain Not Bread<\/a>, along with Kim Maltman and Andy Patton. With Kim Maltman, she has published translations and a book of prose poems under the collaborative pen name Baziju. Borson\u2019s poetry has won the Governor General\u2019s Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Griffin Poetry Prize<\/a>. Early inspirations include listening to short poems by Shakespeare<\/a> and Wordsworth<\/a> recited by heart by her father. She continues to be inspired by whatever shows the world to be larger than it seemed the moment before: travel, daily life, and reading books from around the world. [from the Poetry in Voice website]<\/a>","link":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/creator\/roo-borson\/","name":"Roo Borson","slug":"roo-borson","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/1894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=1894"},{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources?categories=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}