Vancouver Island professor challenges perception of Canadian identity with new poetry chapbook

Nanaimo’s Sonnet L’Abbé, a Vancouver Island University professor and poet, says her childhood experiences inspired her poetry chapbook Anima Canadensis.

Anima recently won the 2017 bpNichol Chapbook Award, which came with a $4,000 prize for L’Abbé. 

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