
Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet, essayist and novelist who lives in France. Born in Toronto, she was a long-time resident of Vancouver, where in the early nineties she began writing, publishing and collaborating in a community of artists and poets. She has since published 9 books of poetry, most recently Boat (2022), 2 books of essays , and one novel, as well as contributing to many artist’s catalogues and monographs (recently, for Simone Fattal's Whitechapel Gallery exhibition Finding A Way). Her 2021 book Anemones: A Simone Weil Project (If I Can’t Dance, Amsterdam), an annotated translation of Weil’s 1942 essay on the troubadour poets and the Cathar heresy, is the most recent outcome of wide rime, an ongoing study of medieval troubadour culture and poetics. In 2017 she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art and Design, and in 2018, the Foundation for the Contemporary Arts in New York awarded her the inaugural C. D. Wright Award in Poetry. Her novel The Baudelaire Fractal was shortlisted for the 2021 Governor General’s Award for Fiction in Canada. Currently she is continuing her work with wide rime, and composing a second novel, Riverwork, forthcoming from Coach House Books.