Roxanna Bennett is a Canadian poet, whose 2019 collection ''Unmeaningable'' won the Raymond Souster Award and the

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for English Poetry in 2020. ''Unmeaningable'' was also shortlisted for the

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, and their 2021 collection ''The Untranslatable I'' was shortlisted for the

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' Raymond Souster Award. Based in

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, Bennett's poetry centres on

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.Robert Colman
"Breaking Past the Normative: A review of Roxanna Bennett's 'Unmeaningable' and Tom Prime and Gary Barwin's 'A Cemetery for Holes'"
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Works

*''The Uncertainty Principle'' (2014) *''the unseen garden'' (2018) *''Unmeaningable'' (2019) *''The Untranslatable I'' (2021)

References

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