in 2005 for his contribution to the arts, but was winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize for lifetime achievement in 2006 and the Griffin Prize for Poetry in 2008. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by SFU in March 2009.[George] Bowering said one of Blaser's major strengths was as a teacher. Despite taking early retirement from SFU in the 1980s, he continued to teach rising poets in his Kitsilano home.
from The Vancouver Sun: Kitsilano poet remembered for sense of humour
also Quill & Quire: Robin Blaser, 1925-2009
also Charles Bernstein: Robin Blaser (scroll to second article)
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