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The Essential P K Page
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Author : Patricia Kathleen Page
language : en
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Release Date : 2008
The Essential P K Page written by Patricia Kathleen Page and has been published by The Porcupine's Quill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Poetry categories.
This is the second volume in our `Essential Poets' series. Our aim is to provide the best possible introduction to a prominent Canadian poet by selecting key works that carry the essence of an individual poetic voice and sensibility. By offering a small but carefully considered selection it is hoped these chapbooks will invite an intimate acquaintance and ongoing engagement with the poems. Selected by Arlene Lampert and Th?a Gray, the collection is admittedly wildly idiosyncratic and certain to be controversial. Arranged alphabetically for easy reference, these poems do not reflect a `young' or a `mature' voice; for Page, time is not linear and change does not occur along a narrow path. Think of this volume as a sort of pocket P. K. Page making its way into backpacks, carry-on luggage, doctors' waiting rooms ...
The Essential P K Page
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Author : Patricia Kathleen Page
language : en
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Release Date : 2014-05-14
The Essential P K Page written by Patricia Kathleen Page and has been published by The Porcupine's Quill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Poetry categories.
P. K. Page needs no introduction. This is a poet who writes in many genres and on an infinite number of subjects. The source of her poetry is always love -- whether in vivid portraits of her inner and outer landscapes; startling insights into the past, the present, the future; illumination of some tiny detail of ordinary life; or admonishments for our neglect of the earth and of each other. Page is an alchemist who turns language into pure gold, a magician who dazzles with sleight of mind. The Essential P. K. Page is perceptive, elegant, romantic (yet never sentimental), sometimes downright funny, wholly conscious.
The Hidden Room
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Author : Patricia Kathleen Page
language : en
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Release Date : 1997
The Hidden Room written by Patricia Kathleen Page and has been published by The Porcupine's Quill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Poetry categories.
`If not ``a shilling life'', a glance at Who's Who in Canada will give you all the facts. Which are more than impressive. P K Page, born in 1916 and very much with us is, in brief, a phenomenon; a force majeur in Canadian literary and artistic life; a National Treasure. Her work to date, sprung from the praiseworthy ambition of the lavishly gifted, bestows upon us rich decades of protean accomplishment, of widespread honour and renown. Let us however concern ourselves here with the essential fictions - with the beginning in delight and ending in wisdom, as Frost has it, of true poems; with this present testament of imaginative, intellectual and spiritual achievement: The Hidden Room: Collected Poems. `To immerse oneself in these two handsome volumes (elegantly complemented and informed throughout by the drawings and paintings of her ``twin sister, / beautiful as Euclid'', the painter P K Irwin) is to plunge into a deep-freighted, breaking wave of swirled delights and parlous undertows. It is, as with all such translucent ramparts of desire and abandon, best met head-on. This is not to say that one must read consecutively through the some four hundred and fifty pages of poetry and the one dangerous, liminal short story. The ordering of the volumes is credited to Stan Dragland, who ``tackled material spanning sixty years and threaded it together in a manner uniquely his own.'' While the overall drift is chronological, the poems have been so intelligently interwoven that each of the volumes is a realized entity, as each is a reflection of the whole.'
The Hidden Room
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Author : Patricia Kathleen Page
language : en
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Release Date : 1997
The Hidden Room written by Patricia Kathleen Page and has been published by The Porcupine's Quill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Poetry categories.
The Hidden Room is filled with treasure gathered from over five decades of some of the best poetry ever written in Canada. Almost all of the poetry P. K. Page has published in volume form is here, all the way from Unit of Five (1944) to Hologram (1994), together with a good many unpublished poems and poems hitherto published only in magazines, from all stages of her career. A section of luminous new poems completes the volume. Evening Dance of the Grey Flies and Hologram appear substantially as first published, though virtually every other section has undergone thoughtful reassessment by the author with the assistance of editor Stan Dragland. The Hidden Room is something more than simply a mechanical Collected. The inclusion of uncollected and new poems has demanded a re-choreographing, a reassortment of familiar poems into new families. The Hidden Room is quite possibly the best collection of verse ever published in this country. This is the essential, rather than the entire P. K. Page, a lifetime of work that any poet would be proud to call their own.
The Essential Kay Smith
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Author : Kay Smith
language : en
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Release Date : 2019-10-28
The Essential Kay Smith written by Kay Smith and has been published by The Porcupine's Quill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-28 with Poetry categories.
Over the course of her lengthy career, New Brunswick poet Kay Smith published in some of Canada’s finest literary journals. Her work displays a sophisticated fusion of images, metaphors and symbols, forgoing clear connections in favour of fractured grammar, surprising diction and her own unique poetic mythology. In Smith’s poetry, images are not signs of meaning or emotion, but rather forms of being—underpinned by her religious faith, her aptitude for metaphysical inquiry and her belief in the purity and wonder of the imagined world. The Essential Poets Series presents the works of Canada’s most celebrated poets in a package that is beautiful, accessible and affordable. The Essential Kay Smith is the twentieth volume in the increasingly popular series.
Coal And Roses
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Author : Patricia Kathleen Page
language : en
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Coal And Roses written by Patricia Kathleen Page and has been published by The Porcupine's Quill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with Poetry categories.
Coal and Roses is a collection of 21 intricately formal glosas, arranged to explore the endless possibilities of language. In this slim volume, P. K. Page offers the reader a wildly eclectic overview of the history of poetry, as well as a master class in the evolution of language as evidenced in the poet’s ‘communion’ with her attributed predecessors. Coal and Roses offers a collection of poems that stand by themselves as commentaries on many of the issues endemic to the varying times, places and circumstances of the aforementioned attributees. Life, death, a palpable need for belonging and the inevitable passage of time are all to be encountered, as one might expect in a work that ranges from the sort of trivial, light-hearted sympathy for the trials of day-to-day life to much weightier reflection on the probability of a greater existence. The use of the glosa form serves to emphasize both the continuity and the evolution of life, and of art. Included are twenty-one glosas, borrowing on the works of nineteen artists. Spanning numerous centuries, movements, genres and corners of the world, Page explores the works of Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke, Margaret Cavendish and Akhmatova amongst others. Coal and Roses is an exquisite work, respectful of the past and hopeful for the future.
The Essential Elizabeth Brewster
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Author : Elizabeth Brewster
language : en
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Release Date : 2021-04-16
The Essential Elizabeth Brewster written by Elizabeth Brewster and has been published by The Porcupine's Quill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-16 with Poetry categories.
Despite an impressive post-secondary education and a body of work that spans more than twenty books and seven decades, Elizabeth Brewster’s quiet humility in the face of ‘all that tradition’ of the Western literary canon belies her contribution to Canada’s cultural history. Perhaps fittingly, her poems demonstrate a sense of isolation, a quest for selfhood, a desire to understand and to be understood. Often conversational in tone, her poems are direct and characterized by a deliberate economy of language and freedom from the restrictions of traditional form. Editor Ingrid Ruthig examines the aesthetic touchstones, stylistic shifts and thematic range in the poetry of a woman ‘whose work is included in critical anthologies while her name is missing from their introductions.’ The Essential Poets Series presents the works of Canada’s most celebrated poets in a package that is beautiful, accessible and affordable. The Essential Elizabeth Brewster is the twenty-second volume in the increasingly popular series.
Rank Songbirds
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Author : Leon Rooke
language : en
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Release Date : 2022-03-21
Rank Songbirds written by Leon Rooke and has been published by The Porcupine's Quill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-21 with Poetry categories.
‘Tonight / I’ll serenade you / With kisses / Modestly dressed...’ In Rank Songbirds, Leon Rooke deploys his playful wit and slantwise perspective to explore the joys and the burdens, the hilarities and the surprises of life in its absurd, charming, tragic minutiae. These are poems that revel in foibles, saucy verbal sparring and the possibilities of artistic expression while ever mindful of the fallibility of humanity, its voracious appetites, its complicit silences, its convulsive politics. And though it may be that ‘Those angels serenading us through / Hazardous night were rank songbirds chirping away / Mindless of hawks zooming overhead,’ these poems remind us that today is not to be confused with last week’s curse, that freedom is getting the high notes right and that, in a pinch, one might ‘apply love’s bandage to the shiftless heart / This minute pooling debris about your feet.’
P K Page
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Author : Linda Rogers
language : en
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Release Date : 2001
P K Page written by Linda Rogers and has been published by Guernica Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Women and literature categories.
In 2001, the International Year of the Poet, P K Page's 'Planet Earth', based on lines by Pablo Neruda was sent into space by the United Nations. Poets, critics, and friends have contributed to this collection about her working life and reveal facets of this enigmatic writer whose glittering surfaces reconcile the mysteries within and without.
Hand Luggage
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Author : Patricia Kathleen Page
language : en
Publisher: The Porcupine's Quill
Release Date : 2006
Hand Luggage written by Patricia Kathleen Page and has been published by The Porcupine's Quill this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Poets, Canadian categories.
It has become customary in Canada to describe P. K. Page as `distinguished', but that epithet betrays her. P. K. Page is simply too vivacious, too cunning, too elusive, to be monumentalized. She is in fact the supreme escape artist of our literature. Try to confine her in a villanelle and she scampers off into free verse. Peg her as a prose poet and she springs forth with a glosa. Categorize her as a poet who writes fiction but then note that you find very little `poet's prose' in her stories. Her characters are often incised with acid and a cruelly keen burin. She is the shrewdest of observers but at the same time she celebrates life, low and high, in all its manifestations. One of the finest and most distinctive Canadian poets, P. K. Page is no provincial. She is a citizen not merely of the world, but of the earth. Starting in Calgary in the twenties, the young P K Page discovered first horses and then the pre-Raphaelites in cheap reproductions. In the thirties it was London, then back to the Maritimes and war and the distance of accented radio broadcasts from overseas. In the forties, in Montreal, there was snow as high as a house, cocoa at Murray's on Sherbrooke Street and poems by Frank Scott and Abe Klein read aloud in rented rooms. In the fifties, marriage to Arthur Irwin and thence to Australia by steamer via Aden, Port Said and Ceylon. Kangaroos and platypus and tea with the wives of diplomats. Perth to Melbourne by train. Alice Springs, Kalgoorli and Ayers Rock. Briefly, New Guinea. Then Brazil, a pet marmoset christened B Fledermouse and drinks with Margot Fonteyn on the beach at Copacobana. From the sublime, to the ridiculous -- an honour guard of mariachis poised to greet John Diefenbaker in the shadow of Popocatepetl. The posting to Mexico was the last. Her memoir ranges from the trivial - the condition of pipes and wiring in embassy homes - to the profound, her persistent search for spiritual certainty. P. K. Page met many of the dominant figures of the twentieth century, including Nehru, DeGaulle, Mountbatten, Tito and the Kennedys. But above all, she celebrates the senses, the beauty of it all. Towards the end of a long and passionate life, Page shares in a most engaging form the highlights of a life lived to the full.