P. K. Page
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Patricia Kathleen Page,CC, OBC, D.Litt (born November 23, 1916), commonly known as P. K. Page, is a Canadian poet. She was born in England and moved with her family to Canada in 1919. She now lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
In 1977 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Companion in 1998. In 2006, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. [1]
[edit] Works
- The Sun and the Moon – 1944
- The Metal and the Flower – 1954 (winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry or Drama)
- Cry Ararat – 1967
- Cook's Mountains – 1967
- The Sun and the Moon and Other Fictions – 1973
- Poems Selected and New – 1984
- Evening Dance of the Grey Flies – 1981
- The Glass Air – 1985
- Brazilian Journal – 1987 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- A Flask of Sea Water – 1989
- The Travelling Musicians – 1991
- The Goat that Flew – 1993
- Hologram: A Book of Glosas – 1994
- And Once More Saw the Stars – 2001
- A Kind of Fiction – 2001
- Planet Earth – 1994 (shortlisted for the 2002 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)
- Schizophrenic
- Hand Luggage – 2006
[edit] External links
- Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips
- Interview in the Victoria Times-Colonist (December 2006)
- Poet of the Month from CBC Words at Large (May 2007)
