Pain Not Bread is a collaborative writing group formed in 1990
by Roo Borson,
Kim Maltman,
and Andy Patton. The name is derived
from the circumstances surrounding the death of the French critic
Roland Barthes.
book : Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei, by Pain Not Bread, Brick Books, 2000
prize :
Pain Not Bread won the Earle Birney Prize for poetry published in Prism International, 1999.
[poem: "Sleep"]