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Hannah Green

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Nationality
Canada
Languages
English
Residence History
Winnipeg, Manitoba

Career

Occupations
Poet, Editor
Active Years
2021-
Affiliations
CV2 (Canadian poetry journal)

Awards

RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
2021
Work: Xanax Cowboy
Category: 詩
Organization: RBC
Result: ファイナリスト
Governor General's Award for English-language poetry
2023
Work: Xanax Cowboy
Category: 英語詩
Organization: Governor General's Awards
Result: 受賞
Gerald Lampert Award
2024
Work: Xanax Cowboy
Category: 最優秀デビュー詩集
Organization: League of Canadian Poets
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Governor General's Awards 1 appearances
  1. Edition 88 (2023) Winner
    Work: Xanax Cowboy

    Winner, 2023 Governor General's Literary Award Winner, 2024 League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Memorial Award The Xanax Cowboy has a reputation like a rattlesnake. She might as well be a strike-anywhere match in a gasoline town.

    Winner, 2023 Governor General's Literary Award Winner, 2024 League of Canadian Poets' Gerald Lampert Memorial Award The Xanax Cowboy has a reputation like a rattlesnake.

    136 pages
    Poetry

Works

Major Works

Xanax Cowboy

2023 Poetry collection

A semi-autobiographical long poem exploring recovery from substance use, a dissociative narrator, and cinematic imagery; candidly addresses anxiety and sobriety.

addiction and recoveryself and identitydissociationcinematic imagery

Bibliography

  • Xanax Cowboy (2023)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
fragmentary, cinematic linesdissociative first-person narration
Recurring Motifs
drug use and dependencycinematic metaphorsfragmented memoryprocess of recovery

Health

  • Substance dependence (alcohol/drugs)
    Has influenced the central themes of her work; recovery and anxiety are major subjects in her poetry.

Legacy

Regarded as an important emerging voice in contemporary Canadian poetry; noted for candid explorations of addiction and recovery and recognized by major Canadian literary awards.

Academic Societies

  • League of Canadian Poets

Quotes

  • "A revelation of living in our anxious times"
    Source: Quill & Quire review by Micheline Maylor (2023)

Trivia

  • Canadian poet from Winnipeg and an editor at the poetry journal CV2.
  • Finalist for the 2021 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers (poetry manuscript 'Xanax Cowboy').
  • Won the 2023 Governor General's Award for English-language poetry for 'Xanax Cowboy'.
  • Won the 2024 Gerald Lampert Award from the League of Canadian Poets.