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'''Katia Grubisic''' is a Canadian writer, editor and translator. |
'''Katia Grubisic''' is a Canadian writer, editor and translator. |
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She attended the University of New Brunswick, and graduated from [[Concordia University]] with a Master's of Arts in 2006.<ref>http://english.concordia.ca/graduate/graduatealumni/GradAlumniBios.php</ref> |
She attended the [[University_of_New_Brunswick|University of New Brunswick]], and graduated from [[Concordia University]] with a Master's of Arts in 2006.<ref>http://english.concordia.ca/graduate/graduatealumni/GradAlumniBios.php</ref> |
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She has acted on the editorial boards of [http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/QWERTY/Winter_03/intro.php ''Qwerty''] and of [[The_Fiddlehead|''The Fiddlehead'']], and is a frequent editor for ''The New Quarterly''.<ref>http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/grubisic.htm</ref> From 2008 onwards, she has been the coordinator of the [http://www.atwaterlibrary.ca/events/atwater-poetry-project Atwater Poetry Project] reading series. |
She has acted on the editorial boards of [http://www.lib.unb.ca/Texts/QWERTY/Winter_03/intro.php ''Qwerty''] and of [[The_Fiddlehead|''The Fiddlehead'']], and is a frequent editor for ''The New Quarterly''.<ref>http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/grubisic.htm</ref> From 2008 onwards, she has been the coordinator of the [http://www.atwaterlibrary.ca/events/atwater-poetry-project Atwater Poetry Project] reading series. |
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==Works== |
==Works== |
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===Books |
===Books=== |
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*''[http://www.amazon.ca/What-if-red-ran-out/dp/0864925093/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277499683&sr=8-1 What if red ran out]'' (Goose Lane Editions, 2008) ISBN 0864925093 |
*''[http://www.amazon.ca/What-if-red-ran-out/dp/0864925093/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277499683&sr=8-1 What if red ran out]'' (Goose Lane Editions, 2008) ISBN 0864925093 |
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*''Barometer'' Delirium Press, 2005 (chapbook) (Out of Print) |
*''Barometer'' Delirium Press, 2005 (chapbook) (Out of Print) |
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*[http://www.superknjizara.hr/index.php?page=knjiga&id_knjiga=25059 ''Croatian Literature in English''] With Vinko Grubišić (Školska knjiga, 2007) ISBN 9789530614864 |
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===Anthologies=== |
===Anthologies=== |
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''[http://www.amazon.ca/Hoodoo-You-Do-So-Well/dp/0978440404/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277500079&sr=1-2 The Hoodoo You Do So Well]'' (Little Fishcart Press, 2007) ISBN 0978440404 |
''[http://www.amazon.ca/Hoodoo-You-Do-So-Well/dp/0978440404/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1277500079&sr=1-2 The Hoodoo You Do So Well]'' (Little Fishcart Press, 2007) ISBN 0978440404 |
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''[http://www.tnq.ca/ The New Quarterly]: 2010 Extra''<br /> |
''[http://www.tnq.ca/ The New Quarterly]: 2010 Extra''<br /> |
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==Reviews== |
==Reviews== |
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<blockquote>There is a high-minded passion to Katia Grubisic's debut poetry collection, What if red ran out, which, despite the latter's contemporary ethos, brings to mind the Greeks. Painstakingly crafted, these poems take the reader to the streets of New York, to isolated canyons and rivers, to a village in Croatia, to nameless bodegas, all without a trace of the traveller's self-consciousness. They exhibit, rather, the instinctive freedom of a hinterland explorer. We are guided through places which are both real and metaphorical, strange yet vaguely recognizable, by a voice which is at times oracular.<ref>[http://www.aelaq.org/mrb/feature.php?issue=24&article=709&cat=1 "Exploratory poetry"], ''Montreal Review of Books'', Aparna Sanyal, Summer 2008, Volume 11, No. 3</ref></blockquote> |
<blockquote>There is a high-minded passion to Katia Grubisic's debut poetry collection, ''What if red ran out'', which, despite the latter's contemporary ethos, brings to mind the Greeks. Painstakingly crafted, these poems take the reader to the streets of New York, to isolated canyons and rivers, to a village in Croatia, to nameless bodegas, all without a trace of the traveller's self-consciousness. They exhibit, rather, the instinctive freedom of a hinterland explorer. We are guided through places which are both real and metaphorical, strange yet vaguely recognizable, by a voice which is at times oracular.<ref>[http://www.aelaq.org/mrb/feature.php?issue=24&article=709&cat=1 "Exploratory poetry"], ''Montreal Review of Books'', Aparna Sanyal, Summer 2008, Volume 11, No. 3</ref></blockquote> |
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<blockquote>''What if red ran out'' is filled with such what ifs and were nevers. Forget about hopes of grandiosity or words tangled up to make themselves unreadable to all but the chosen few academes who must translate them for us: Katia’s world is here on earth, here with strawberry jam and moths and 'cardboard eclipse thingies.'<ref>[http://literaryaddict.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/katia-grubisic%E2%80%99s-what-if-red-ran-out/ "Katia Grubisic’s What if Red Ran Out"], ''Literary Addict'', August 28, 2008 </ref></blockquote> |
<blockquote>''What if red ran out'' is filled with such what ifs and were nevers. Forget about hopes of grandiosity or words tangled up to make themselves unreadable to all but the chosen few academes who must translate them for us: Katia’s world is here on earth, here with strawberry jam and moths and 'cardboard eclipse thingies.'<ref>[http://literaryaddict.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/katia-grubisic%E2%80%99s-what-if-red-ran-out/ "Katia Grubisic’s What if Red Ran Out"], ''Literary Addict'', August 28, 2008 </ref></blockquote> |
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Revision as of 22:55, 25 June 2010
Katia Grubisic is a Canadian writer, editor and translator.
She attended the University of New Brunswick, and graduated from Concordia University with a Master's of Arts in 2006.[1] She has acted on the editorial boards of Qwerty and of The Fiddlehead, and is a frequent editor for The New Quarterly.[2] From 2008 onwards, she has been the coordinator of the Atwater Poetry Project reading series.
Her work has appeared in Grain, The Spoon River Poetry Review, Prairie Fire and other Canadian and international publications. She reviews books for Arc, The Globe and Mail and The Rover, among others.[3]
Awards
- 2009 Gerald Lampert Award
Works
Books
- What if red ran out (Goose Lane Editions, 2008) ISBN 0864925093
- Barometer Delirium Press, 2005 (chapbook) (Out of Print)
- Croatian Literature in English With Vinko Grubišić (Školska knjiga, 2007) ISBN 9789530614864
Anthologies
Regreen: New Canadian Ecological Poetry Edited by Madhur Anand and Adam Dickinson (Your Scrivener Press, 2009) ISBN 9781896350363
The Hoodoo You Do So Well (Little Fishcart Press, 2007) ISBN 0978440404
Edited
The New Quarterly: 2010 Extra
Penned: Zoo Poems Editor, with Stephanie Bolster and Simon Reader (Signal Editions – Vehicule Press, 2009) ISBN 9781550652635
The New Quarterly: The Montreal Issue 106 (2008)
Reviews
There is a high-minded passion to Katia Grubisic's debut poetry collection, What if red ran out, which, despite the latter's contemporary ethos, brings to mind the Greeks. Painstakingly crafted, these poems take the reader to the streets of New York, to isolated canyons and rivers, to a village in Croatia, to nameless bodegas, all without a trace of the traveller's self-consciousness. They exhibit, rather, the instinctive freedom of a hinterland explorer. We are guided through places which are both real and metaphorical, strange yet vaguely recognizable, by a voice which is at times oracular.[4]
What if red ran out is filled with such what ifs and were nevers. Forget about hopes of grandiosity or words tangled up to make themselves unreadable to all but the chosen few academes who must translate them for us: Katia’s world is here on earth, here with strawberry jam and moths and 'cardboard eclipse thingies.'[5]
Every poem in this book is superb. ... Great authority, confidence, strong, undeniable narrative drive without being lyrical, occasional poems in the best sense of that expression. ... Poetry that is a communication, provided you want that out of your books, but not one that demands it either, muscular, a feral python. </ref>
References
- ^ http://english.concordia.ca/graduate/graduatealumni/GradAlumniBios.php
- ^ http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/grubisic.htm
- ^ http://quebecbooks.qwf.org/authors/view/673
- ^ "Exploratory poetry", Montreal Review of Books, Aparna Sanyal, Summer 2008, Volume 11, No. 3
- ^ "Katia Grubisic’s What if Red Ran Out", Literary Addict, August 28, 2008
External links
- "Poetry readings: Katia Grubisic", The Gazette, July 30, 2009
- "The NaPoMo Questionnaire: Katia Grubisic", The National Post, April 25, 2009