Tess Liem

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Tess Liem or T. Liem is a Canadian poet from Montreal, Quebec, who published their debut poetry collection Obits in 2018. [1] The book was named one of the year's best Canadian poetry collections by CBC Arts, [2] and won the Gerald Lampert Award from the League of Canadian Poets in 2019. [3]

The book was also nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry at the 31st Lambda Literary Awards, [4] and was longlisted for the Pat Lowther Award. [5]

Liem's second collection, Slows: Twice, was published in 2023 by Coach House Books. Reviewing the collection for Montreal Review of Books, Salena Weiner called Slows: Twice "chock-full of versions, inversions, and revisions of the self." The collection as its central image the mirror, which is replicated formally by the second half of the collection being a mirror image of the first. [6] Sylee Gore, for Poetry, praised the book's formal inventiveness as well as its "poised and raw" tone. [7]

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References

  1. "Reviews: Amateurs at Love, Obits, Ruba’iyat for the Time of Apricots". Quill & Quire , January 2019.
  2. "The best Canadian poetry of 2018". CBC Books, December 13, 2018.
  3. "Tess Liem, Stevie Howell win 2019 Book Awards for poetry". Quill & Quire , June 10, 2019.
  4. "Vivek Shraya, Joshua Whitehead among Canadian finalists for Lambda Literary Awards". Quill & Quire , March 7, 2019.
  5. "League of Canadian Poets announces 2019 Book Awards longlists". Quill & Quire , April 1, 2019.
  6. "Slows: Twice • Montreal Review of Books". Montreal Review of Books. Retrieved 2023-08-11.
  7. Foundation, Poetry (2023-08-11). "Review: Slows Twice". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2023-08-11.