Daphne Marlatt
Canadian poet
Daphne Marlatt (née Buckle, July 11, 1942) is a Canadian poet and novelist who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Her works include novels, poetry, and edited literary journals and magazines. In 2006, she was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
Life and work
Early life
Daphne Marlatt was born to English parents, Arthur and Edrys Lupprian Buckle, in Melbourne, Australia on July 11, 1942. When she was three, Marlatt's family moved to Penang, Malaysia, and then when she was nine her family immigrated to Vancouver. Marlatt received her BA from the University of British Columbia in 1964. While there, in 1963, she had also become an editor for TISH, a Canadian literary journal.
In 1963, she had also married clinical psychologist G. Alan Marlatt, with whom she settled in Bloomington, Indiana. She received her MA in comparative literature from the Indiana University in 1968. There, she started to write her first book of poetry Frames of a Story (1968), which Robert Lecker called her "initial attempt to formulate a poetry which would establish a correlation between perception and articulation."
In 1969, Marlatt published leaf leaf/s, which is a collection of shorter poems.
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