Nancy Holmes (born February 9, 1959) is a

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Biography

Holmes was born in

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and went to high school in

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. She then attended the

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where she received her MA in

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/ref> She has published four collections of

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and many

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. Her poetry and

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have been published in ''A Room of One's Own'', ''Lichen'', ''The Malahat Review'', ''Matrix'', ''Prairie Fire'', ''Grain'', ''The Harpweaver'', and ''The Antigonish Review''. Holmes is an

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and

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at the

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Works

*''Valancy and the New World'' (Kalamalka Press, 1988) *''Down to the Golden Chersonese: Victorian Lady Travellers'' (Sono Nis, 1991) *''The Adultery Poems'' (Ronsdale, 2002) *''Mandorla'' (Ronsdale Press, 2005)Mandorla: By Nancy Holmes at ronsdalepress.com
/ref> *''Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems'' (2008) *''The Flicker Tree: Okanagan Poems'' (2012) *''Arborophobia'' (

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, 2022)

References

External links

Author web site Nancy Holmes biography Random Acts of Poetry
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