Erín Moure

Erín Moure is a poet and translator. In Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, she has published eighteen books of poetry, a co-authored book of poetry, a volume of essays, a book of short articles on translation, a poetics, and two memoirs. She is translator or co-translator of nineteen books of poetry and two of creative nonfiction (biopoetics) from French, Galician, Portuñol, Portuguese, and Spanish. Three of her own books have appeared in translation, one each in German, Galician, and French. Her work has received the Governor General's Award, Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and A.M. Klein Prize (twice), and has been a three-time finalist for the Griffin Prize (twice for translations) and a two-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award (USA–Poetry). A 40-year retrospective of her poetry, Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure, appeared in 2017 from Wesleyan University Press. Her translation into Frenglish from the Portuñol of Brazilian Wilson Bueno’s Paraguayan Sea appeared in 2017 from Nightboat Books. Her own latest is The Elements (Anansi, 2019), which she calls “a book of Dad.”