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