Erin Moure ERÍN MOURE is a poet and translator based in Montreal. Her 11th collection of poetry, O Cidadán (Anansi, 2002) is a troubled yet hopeful consideration on what “citizen” could mean in our era; it was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Sheep’s Vigil by a Fervent Person (Anansi, 2001, as Eirin Moure), her transelation from the Portuguese of Alberto Caiero/Fernando Pessoa’s O Guardador de Rebanhos, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the City of Toronto Book Award. A Frame of the Book, aka The Frame of a Book (Anansi, Toronto; Sun &; Moon Press, LA) and Pillage Laud (Moveable Type Books, Toronto) both appeared in 1999; Search Procedures in 1996 (finalist for the Governor General’s Award). Her 1988 Furious (Anansi) was awarded the Governor General’s Award for poetry, and WSW (Véhicle Press, Montreal, 1989) received a QSPELL poetry prize. Moure’s newest book of poetry, Little Theatres, won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and was also nominated for the 2005 Governor General’s Award for English-language poetry. She is currently writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, where she is working on a new book of poetry and completing a translation of Chus Pato’s forthcoming Charenton. Her most recent translation with Robert Majzels of poetry by Québec’s Nicole Brossard is Museum of Bone and Water (Anansi, 2003). A section of her translation of Galician poetry Chus Pato’s m-Talá appeared as a chapbook in late 2003 from Nomados in Vancouver. She has also translated some poems from France’s Sébastien Smirou and Christophe Tarkos; Andrés Ajens from Chilean Spanish; and poems by Manuel Antonio, Manuel Rivas and Chus Pato from Galician.

September 12th, 2006