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Selina Boan's debut collection of poetry Undoing Hours (Nightwood $18.95) earned the Pat Lowther Award and won a prize at the fifth annual Indigenous Voices Awards (IVAs) in the published poetry in English category.
Selina Boan is a white settler–nehiyaw poet living on the traditional, unceded territories of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ílwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples. Her work has been published widely, including in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 and 2020. She has received several honours for her work, including Room’s 2018 Emerging Writer Award and the 2017 National Magazine Award for Poetry. She is currently a poetry editor for Rahila’s Ghost Press and is a member of the Growing Room Collective.
Photo by Kayla McInnis.
BOOKS:
Undoing Hours (Nightwood Editions, 2021) $18.95 9780889713963
[BCBW 2022]
Selina Boan is a white settler–nehiyaw poet living on the traditional, unceded territories of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ílwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) peoples. Her work has been published widely, including in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 and 2020. She has received several honours for her work, including Room’s 2018 Emerging Writer Award and the 2017 National Magazine Award for Poetry. She is currently a poetry editor for Rahila’s Ghost Press and is a member of the Growing Room Collective.
Photo by Kayla McInnis.
BOOKS:
Undoing Hours (Nightwood Editions, 2021) $18.95 9780889713963
[BCBW 2022]
