Canadian Poets Series #20 : Stephanie Bolster
Stephanie Bolster’s latest book of poetry, Long Exposure [ see my review of such here ], began as an exploration of Robert Polidori’s photographs of New Orleans and Chernobyl , and extended inward and outward from there. Excerpts from Long Exposure were finalists for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2019. Bolster’s first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems , won the Governor General’s Award and the Gerald Lampert Award and was translated into French as Pierre Blanche . She has been interviewed by Poetry in Voice , The Montreal Review of Books and On Creative Writing , with further press on her work listed at her website . Her poems have also been translated into Spanish, German, and Serbo-Croatian. She is the author of four chapbooks through above/ground press, including her debut, Three Bloody Words (1996), as well as BIODÔME (2006), Three Bloody Words: Twentieth Anniversary Edition (2016) and Ghosts (2017). A twentieth anniversary edition of BIODÔME appears later this sp...
