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Hand Luggage

A Memoir in Verse

Hand Luggage( )
Author: Page, P. K.
ISBN:978-0-88984-288-5
Publication Date:Mar 2006
Publisher:Porcupine's Quill, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.95
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:96
Detailed Subjects: Poetry / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.59 x 8.76 x 0.41 Inches
Book Weight:0.406 Pounds
Author Biography
Page, P. K. (Author)
P. K. Page 1916-2010 P. K. (Patricia Kathleen) Page was born in Dorset, England on November 23, 1916 and moved to Canada in 1919.

She was a founder of the magazine, "Preview" and a scripwriter for the National Film Board. Her work "the Metal and the Flower," won her the Governor General's Award. She has also won the Oscar Blumenthal Award for Poetry, the National Magazine Award, the Canadian Authors' Association Literary Award and the Hubert Evans Prize for "Brazilian Journal." In addition, she was the recipient of the Banff Centre of Fine Arts National Award in 1989 and she is a Life Member of the League of Canadian Poets.

Although most known for her writing, Page is also an artist. She exhibits her paintings under the name P. K. Irwin (as she is the wife of diplomat Arthur Irwin). Her works are in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario.

She died on January 14, 2010

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