Alexandra Oliver
Born1970 (age 52–53)
Vancouver
OccupationPoet
NationalityCanadian
Period1990s-present
Notable worksMeeting the Tormentors in Safeway
SpouseDragan Basekic
Website
Official website

Alexandra Oliver (born 1970) is a Canadian poet, who won the Pat Lowther Award in 2014 for her collection Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway.[1][2]

A graduate of the University of Toronto and the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing, Oliver began as a Vancouver-based slam poet in the early 1990s,[3] and appeared in the 1998 documentary film SlamNation.[4]

Bibliography

  • Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway (2013)[4]
  • Measure for Measure: An Anthology of Poetic Meters, co-editor with Annie Finch (2015)[5]
  • Let the Empire Down (2016)[6]
  • On the Oven Sits a Maiden (chapbook) (2018)[5]
  • Hail the Invisible Watchman (2022)[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Anne Compton, Alexandra Oliver, Murray Reiss win League of Canadian Poets awards". Quill & Quire, June 9, 2014.
  2. ↑ "The Outlier". The Walrus, June 9, 2016. Accessed August 12, 2020.
  3. ↑ "Hot Shots of '93: They're young and they're dazzling". Vancouver Sun, May 8, 1993.
  4. 1 2 "Michael Lista, On Poetry: Meeting the Tormentors in Safeway, by Alexandra Oliver". National Post, November 15, 2013.
  5. 1 2 Alexandra Basekic. McMaster University Faculty of Humanities. Accessed August 12, 2020.
  6. ↑ "Measured Pleasures: Alexandra Oliver's Let the Empire Down". Arc Poetry Magazine, May 14, 2017. Accessed August 12, 2020.
  7. ↑ Hail, the Invisible Watchman


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