POETRY

Now You Care. Toronto: Coach House, 2003.

Jerusalem, Beloved. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Turnstone Press, 1995.

mother, not mother. Stratford, Ontario: Mercury Press, 1992.

Agnes in the Sky. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Turnstone Press, 1990.

questions i asked my mother. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Turnstone Press, 1987.

Awakengings. [CD] with Dorothy Livesay, Carol Ann Weaver, and Rebecca Campbell.

OTHER WORKS

Brandt, Di, and Barbara Godard, eds. Regeneration: Canadian Women in Conversation. Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press, 2005.

Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries. Toronto: Mercury, 1996.

Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1993.

The Bridge: Or, What's Wrong With Jim McKenzie? libretto. Winnipeg: Canadian Mennonite Bible College, 1973.

Boire, Gary. “Against Powerful Mal(e)dictions.” Essays on Canadian Writing 47 (1992): 124-134.

Carrière, Marie. “An Ethics of Love: Brandt, Mouré, and Brossard.” Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada: A Question of Ethics. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002. 166-206.

Carrière, Marie. “Questioning the Mother: Di Brandt.” Writing in the Feminine in French and English Canada: A Question of Ethics. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002. 72-84.

Conway, Rosalind E. Rev. of questions i asked my mother, by Di Brandt. Canadian Literature 122-123
(1989 ): 278-279.

Friesen, Ralph. Rev. of questions i asked my mother, by Di Brandt. Border Crossings 7.2 (1988): 30-31.

Hatch, Ronald B. Rev. of Agnes In The Sky, by Di Brandt. University of Toronto Quarterly 61.1 (1991):
55-56.

Hunter, Catherine. “Speaking Across the Line: An Interview with Di Brandt.” Prairie Fire 15.1 (1994): 42-54.

Irvine, Dean J. Rev. of Jerusalem, Beloved, by Di Brandt. Canadian Literature 155 (1997): 187-191.

Kehler, Grace. “Stealing the Word(s): The Subversion of Monologic Language in Di Brandt's Questions I Asked
my Mother.” Open Letter 9.2 (1995): 19-28.

Lane, Patrick. Rev. of Agnes in the Sky, by Di Brandt. NeWest Review 16.5 (1991): 32.

Maart, Rozena. Rev. of mother, not mother, by Di Brandt. Books In Canada 22.4 (1993): 48.

McLauchlan, Laura. Rev. of Agnes in the Sky, by Di Brandt. Canadian Woman Studies 12.2 (1992): 118.

Mierau, Maurice. Rev. of Agnes in the Sky, by Di Brandt. Prairie Fire 11.2 (1990): 215-216.

Nepveu, Pierre. Rev. of Agnes in the Sky, by Di Brandt. Spirale 124 (1993): 13.

Oughton, John. Rev. of questions i asked my mother, by Di Brandt. Books in Canada 17.2 (1988):
33-34.

Patterson, Erin. “Di Brandt (CAA Literary Award Winner for Poetry).” Canadian Author 72.1 (1996): 13-14.

Patterson, Randi. “‘The Sound the Wind Makes’ on the Information Super Highway: An E-mail Interview with Di Brandt.” New Quarterly 14.2 (1994): 21-38.

“Raging Against a Christian Childhood: In Her New Book of Poems, Di Brandt Recalls the Intellectual Repression
of her Strict Mennonite Upbringing.” Vancouver Sun 27 Oct. 1990: D17.

Reimer, Douglas. “Father, Mother, and Mennonite Me: Di Brandt and the Overthrow of the Mother.” Surplus at the Border: Mennonite Writing in Canada. Douglas Reimer. Turnstone Press, 2002. 99-132.

Rev. of Agnes in the Sky, by Di Brandt. Border Crossings 10.1 (1990/ 1991): 54-55.

Rev. of Jerusalem, Beloved, by Di Brandt. Quill & Quire 61.11 (1995): 38.

Ruttan, Karen. Rev. of questions i asked my mother, by Di Brandt. Poetry Canada Review 10.1 (1989): 5-9.

Schaub, Danielle. “Eight Photographs from Seeing Canadian Voices: Writers in Light and Shadow.” ARC 47
(2001): 32-39.

Scobie, Stephen. Rev. of Agnes in the Sky, by Di Brandt. Malahat Review 94 (1991): 110.

Tammaro, Thom. “Di Brandt's Agnes in the Sky.” NDQ 59.3 (1991): 234-237.

Tefs, Wayne. “Rage in Some Recent Mennonite Poetry.” Acts of Concealment: Mennonites Writing in Canada.
Eds. Hildi Froese Tiessen and Peter Hinchcliffe. Waterloo, ON: University of Waterloo Press, 1993. 193-205.

Tregebov, Rhea. Rev. of Agnes in the Sky, by Di Brandt. Books In Canada 19.8 (1990): 42-43.

Williamson, Janice. “The Sadness in this Book is that I'm Reaching for this Story.” Sounding Differences: Conversations with Seventeen Canadian Women Writers. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. 31-53.

1995: Canadian Authors Association National Poetry Award, Jerusalem, Beloved

1995: Silver National Magazine Award, “the sound the wind makes”

1990: McNally Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year Award, Agnes in the Sky

1987: Governor General's Award, questions i asked my mother

1987: Gerald Lampert Award, questions i asked my mother

Di Brandt was born in 1952 in Winkler, Manitoba, and was raised in a Mennonite village in Reinland, Manitoba. She has published poetry and creative essays, and her work has recently been set to music. She has twice been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry, in 1987, for questions i asked my mother, and in 1995, for Jerusalem, Beloved. She is a former poetry editor of Prairie Fire, Contemporary Verse 2, and HERizons literary magazines, and is currently a professor at the University of Windsor, where she teaches creative writing and English.
Her latest collection, Now You Care, was nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award for Poetry, and the Trillium Prize for Best Book in 2004. She is currently writing “Berlin Notes,” the first chapter of which was featured in Prairie Fire's Fall 2003 issue. Brandt is co-producing Planet Earth, a CD which sets to music poetry by Canadian women: her own contribution to this project is entitled Sweet Sweet Blood, which premiered at the Sounding in the Land music conference at the University of Waterloo in May 2004.

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