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Jennifer Zilm

Canadian poet

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Jennifer Zilm was a Canadian.

Jennifer Zilm is a Canadian poet. Her first book, Waiting Room, was a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry.It has been described as making a "valuable contribution to the documentary tradition in Canadian poetry." Her second book, The Missing Field (2018), was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award. The Malahat Review praised its poems "centred on the intellectual landscapes of documents and ephemera" for being "endlessly intricate and beautiful".

Zilm is a former member of the Room Magazine editorial collective. She is a librarian and archivist and her work draws heavily on techniques such as collage and erasure.

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Canadian poet

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