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BILLY-RAY BELCOURT (he/him) is a writer and academic from the Driftpile Cree Nation. His debut book of poems, This Wound is a World, won the 2018 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2018 Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize, and was named the Most Significant Book of Poetry in English by an Emerging Indigenous Writer at the 2018 Indigenous Voices Award. It was also a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and the Raymond Souster Award. It was named by CBC Books as one of the best Canadian poetry collections of the year. Billy-Ray is a Ph.D. student and a 2018 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He is also a 2016 Rhodes Scholar and holds a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies from Wadham College at the University of Oxford.
For all the ferocious energy and one-two punch of language here,
this is also a concentrated, beautifully managed work.
*Library Journal*
Both intellectual and visceral, these poems dazzle with metaphoric
richness and striking lyricism.
*Toronto Star*
A masterful blend of the personal and the political, the ephemeral
and the corporeal, the theoretical and the emotional.
*Quill and Quire*
An impressive follow-up to his first book.
*Winnipeg Free Press*
Playful, candid, and campy.
*Prairie Books NOW*
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