Marianne Bluger

Marianne Bluger (August 28, 1945 Ottawa – October 29, 2005) was a Canadian poet.

Life

She graduated with distinction from McGill University where she studied pre-medical subjects and philosophy as well as taking poetry courses with Louis Dudek.

She later dropped out of medical school to marry a Zen Master Samu Kim of Toronto. They had two children: Michael "Maji" Kim (b. 1969), and Micheline "Agi" Mallory (b. 1970). She married Larry Neily, in 1991.

She was executive secretary – treasurer of the Canadian Writers' Foundation, from 1975 to 2000.^[1] She co-founded Christians Against Apartheid, and the Tabitha Foundation.

Awards

• Canada Council
• 1993 Lampman-Scott Award

Works

• The Thumbless Man is at the Piano. Three Trees Press. 1981. ISBN 0-88823-045-1.
• On Nights Like This. Brick Books. 1984. ISBN 0-919626-25-4.
• Gathering Wild. Brick Books. 1987. ISBN 0-919626-35-1.
• Summer Grass. Brick Books. 1992. ISBN 0-919626-59-9.
• Bluger, Marianne; Haas, Rudi (1996). Tamarack & Clearcut. Carleton University Press. ISBN 0-88629-293-X.
• Gusts. Penumbra Press. 1999. ISBN 0-921254-86-5.
• Scissor, Paper, Woman. Penumbra Press. 2000. ISBN 1-894131-01-0.
• Early Evening Pieces. BuschekBooks. 2003. ISBN 1-894543-14-9.
• Zen Mercies / Small Satoris. Penumbra Press. 2005. ISBN 1-894131-75-4.
• The Eternities. St. Thomas Poetry Series. 2005. ISBN 0-9735910-2-1.
• Nude with Scar. Penumbra Press. 2006. ISBN 1-894131-93-2.

Anthologies

• Bruce Ross, ed. (1993). Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku. Tuttle Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8048-1820-9.

Reviews

Marianne Bluger's seventh book, Scissor, Paper, Woman, invests in images so precise they resound far beyond the pages that contain them.^[2]

References

1. Elizabeth Lumley, ed. (2001). Canadian Who's Who 2001, Volume 36. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0-8020-4958-2.
2. Sally Chivers. "Into & Beyond Bodies". Canadian Literature.

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Marianne Bluger", Canadian Poetry, University of Toronto