Anne-Marie Turza
Anne-Marie Turza is the author of two collections of poetry, The Quiet and Fugue with Bedbug, both by House of Anansi Press, and the chapbook Slip Minute. She was a finalist for the 2011 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and the 2014 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her work has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, The Malahat Review, and the anthology The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2010, among others. Turza lives in Victoria.
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“A confident and serene narrative voice evokes vibrant, imaginative and astonishing images which unreel like the frames of a silent film in this compelling and often poignant prose poem meditation on ‘The Quiet’ — that hushed, still place underlying the narrator’s human experience.” — 2011 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Jury (Kate Braid, Gail Harris, and Robert Priest)Program History
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“Across the last decade, Anne-Marie Turza has become one of the most striking and idiosyncratic voices in Canadian poetry. Her sensibility is unmistakable: oblique, funny, touched with an unforced strangeness that feels like a genuinely new way of seeing. There is often a fairy tale quality to her imagery, a surreality; at other turns, she transforms the grit of everyday life into a glorious marvel. Turza is one of our finest poets, a visionary whose work has the texture of prophecy.”—2026 WT Board Fellowship Jury (Esi Edugyan, Charlotte Gray, and Wayne Johnston)
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