Diana Brebner (1956-2001). Courtesy Arc Poetry Magazine.
Jennivien Diana Brebner (May 20, 1956 - April 29, 2001) was a Canadian poet.
Life[]
Brebner was born in Kingston, Ontario, the eldest daughter of Dutch immigrants. She grew up in a suburb of Montreal, Quebec.
She was educated at the University of Ottawa.
She lived in Ottawa for the remainder of her life, and died there.
Recognition[]
Brebner won the Gerald Lampert Award in 1991 for Radiant Life Forms, the Pat Lowther Award in 1994 for The Golden Lotus, and the Archibald Lampman Award in 1997 for Flora & Fauna.
Brebner's posthumous collection, The Ishtar Gate: Last and selected poems, was edited by Stephanie Bolster and published in 2005.
She is commemorated by the Diana Brebner Prize, awarded annually by Arc magazine to a book written by a National Capital Region poet that has not yet been published.[1]
Publications[]
- Radiant Life Forms. Windsor, ON: Netherlandic Press, 1990. ISBN 0-919417-21-3
- The Golden Lotus. Windsor, ON: Netherlandic Press, 1993. ISBN 0-919417-31-0
- Flora & Fauna. Windsor, ON: Netherlandic Press, 1996. ISBN 0-919417-44-2
- The Ishtar Gate: Last and selected poems (edited by Stephanie Bolster). Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-7735-2835-2
Bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[2]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Diana Brebner Prize, Arc Poetry Magazine, Feb. 26, 2015. Web, Mar. 30, 2017.
- ↑ Search results = au:Diana Brebner, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, June 30, 2012.
External links[]
- Books
- Diana Brebner at Amazon.com
- About
- Review of The Ishtar Gate at PoetryReviews.ca.
- Talking out the Canadian Trash, critique of Brebner's poem "Port."
- Etc.
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