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Name
  
Heather Spears


Role
  
Poet

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Education
  
University of British Columbia, University of Copenhagen

Awards
  
Governor General's Award for English-language poetry

Books
  
Drawings from the newborn, The Word for Sand, The flourish, Moonfall, The taming

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Heather Spears (born 1934) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and artist living in Denmark.

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Life

Educated at the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver School of Art, Spears emigrated to Denmark in 1962 where she also studied at the University of Copenhagen.

Awards

In 1989 her collection The Word for Sand won both the Governor-General's Award for Poetry and the Pat Lowther Award. Spears won her first Pat Lowther Award in 1987 for How to Read Faces and her third in 2002 for Required Reading: a witness in words and drawings to the Reena Virk Trials, 1998-2000

References

Heather Spears Wikipedia