Daphne Marlatt is one of Canada's pre-eminent feminist poets. She was at the centre of the West Coast poetry movement of the 1960s. Her early literary associations with the loosely affiliated Tish group encouraged her non-conformist approach to language and form. For her, writing has been a lifelong ethical project, deeply engaged with feminism, immigrant experiences, and ecological issues. Her innovations in the prose poem form have influenced an entire generation (and beyond) of Canadian poets. Recent works include Then Now, Intertidal: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1968-2008, and Reading Sveva. Marlatt's The Gull, the first Canadian play staged in the ancient, ritualized tradition of Japanese Noh theatre, won the prestigious 2008 Uchimura Naoya Prize. In 2006, she was appointed to the Order of Canada in recognition of a lifetime of distinguished service to Canadian culture. In 2009, she was awarded the Dorothy Livesay Prize for Poetry, for her innovative long poem The Given, and in 2012 she received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award.