Kaleidoscope: Selected Poems

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The Porcupine's Quill, May 14, 2014 - Poetry - 256 pages

The name P. K. Page is synonymous with ‘artist’: she won the Governor General’s award for poetry in 1957, was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1999, and her paintings are found in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario, among others. Her voice is luminous, her focus grounded in reality, and her mastery of poetic form is nigh unmatched in Canadian literature.


Selected by Zailig Pollock, the poetry in Kaleidoscope is elegant, technically exquisite and full of marvels, and the chronological presentation reveals Page’s growth as a poet over her long lifetime. This collection is more than a mere re-publishing of previous work; Kaleidoscope includes poetry hitherto unpublished, and Page involved herself with the process of editing certain pieces until her death in January 2010.


Kaleidoscope: Selected Poems is the first in a series of volumes to be published over the next ten years as a complement to an online hypermedia edition of the Collected Works of P. K. Page. The online edition is intended for scholarly research, while Kaleidscope offers a beautiful and inspiring text to be enjoyed by those who love and wonder at the achievement of Canada’s greatest poet.

 

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Patricia Kathleen Page
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Patricia Kathleen Page
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angels beautiful become bird blind blood blow blue body bone Brazil break bright changed child colour Dance dark death draw dream earth eyes face fall feather feel feet fire fish flesh flowers garden geometry glass gold golden gone grass green grey grow hair hands head hear heart hidden hold imagination kind landscape leaves light locked look lost melt metal mind mountain mouth move mute natural never night once Page Page’s painting pale pass play poem poet poetry rain rose shine side silent singing skin sleep slow snow space stars stone string summer tell things thought trees turned walk wave weeping whole wind wings wish write yellow

About the author (2014)

P. K. Page wrote some of the best poems published in Canada over the last seven decades. In addition to winning the Governor General’s Award for poetry in 1957, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1999. She was the author of more than two dozen books, including ten volumes of poetry, a novel, short stories, eight books for children, and two memoirs based on her extended stays in Brazil and Mexico with her husband Arthur Irwin, who served in those countries as the Canadian Ambassador. In addition to writing, Page painted, under the name P. K. Irwin. She mounted one-woman shows in Mexico and Canada. Her work was also exhibited in various group shows, and is represented in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Victoria Art Gallery, among others.


A two-volume edition of Page’s collected poems, The Hidden Room (Porcupine’s Quill), was published in 1997, and the full range of her richly varied work is being made available in a digital resource, The Digital Page, supplemented by a series of texts in print and e-book format published by The Porcupine’s Quill.


P. K. Page was born in England and brought up on the Canadian prairies. She died on the 14th of January, 2010.

Bibliographic information

TitleKaleidoscope: Selected Poems
Volume 1 of Collected Works of P. K. Page
AuthorPatricia Kathleen Page
EditorZailig Pollock
PublisherThe Porcupine's Quill, 2014
ISBN112300384X, 9781123003840
Length256 pages
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Poetry / Canadian
Poetry / General
  
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