Burgoyne, Sarah

Sarah Burgoyne is an experimental poet. Her first collection Saint Twin (Mansfield: 2016) was a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize (2016), awarded a prize from l’Académie de la vie littéraire (2017) and shortlisted for a Canadian ReLit Award. Other works of hers have been featured in scores by American composer J.P. Merz and have appeared in collaboration with or alongside the visual art of Canadian artists Suzanna Barlow, Jamie Macaulay and Joani Tremblay. Her pedagogy aims to expand students’ ideas of what poetry can be, and encourages them to encounter and generate poetry in innovative, tentacular ways. .