Vivimarie VanderPoorten
Borrowed Dust

Borrowed Dust

"It is a gentle, reflective minimalism which reaches the soul, like a shadow passing across your face. Her willingness and ability to subject her personal experiences to such open scrutiny leads to pensive, but often trenchant, self-appraisal. An intimate glimpse into...

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Nothing Prepares You

Nothing Prepares You

Winner of the Gratiaen Prize 2007 An academic and poet, Vivimarie VanderPoorten's creative work primarily deals with issues such as war, loss, death, violence, power and grief. She admits that pain - both her own as well as that of others and of society, in general,...

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