Jennifer Zilm is a Canadian poet. Her first book, Waiting Room (2016), was a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, [1] .It has been described as making a "valuable contribution to the documentary tradition in Canadian poetry." [2] Her second book, The Missing Field (2018), was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award. [3] The Malahat Review praised its poems "centred on the intellectual landscapes of documents and ephemera" for being "endlessly intricate and beautiful". [4]
Zilm is a former member of the Room Magazine editorial collective. [5] She is a librarian and archivist and her work draws heavily on techniques such as collage and erasure. [6]
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