Poetry. This volume includes work from each of Daphne Marlatt's earlier books of poetry: Frames of a Story, leaf leaf/s, Rings, Vancouver Poems, STEVESTON and Our Lives; from the forthcoming What Matters; the prose work Zócalo; magazine selections from Imago and The Capilano Review and unpublished work.

Author City: Vancouver, BC CAN

Daphne Marlatt, née Buckle, CM (born July 11, 1942), is a Canadian poet who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was born in Melbourne, Australia. At a young age her family moved to Malaysia and at age nine they moved back to British Columbia, where she attended the University of British Columbia. There she developed her poetry style and her strong feminist views. In 1968, she received an MA in comparative literature from Indiana University. Her poetry, while considered extremely dense and difficult, is also much acclaimed. In 2006, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.