Format: Recorded
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Mark Dickinson, author of Canadian Primal: Poets, Places, and the Music of Meaning will host a panel discussion with three of the five writers featured in his book – Robert Bringhurst, Tim Lilburn, and Jan Zwicky.
Mark Dickinson has a B.A. in General Studies from the University of British Columbia, a Master’s of Environmental Studies from York University, and a Ph.D in Canadian Studies from Trent University.
“At last, in Dickinson, an academic comfortable with the word soul! If Tom Thomson, Lawren Harris and the Group of Seven, and Emily Carr have painted the soul of the country, poet-thinkers, including Dickinson’s five, have attempted to give voice to the country in wholeness with all its blessings and blemishes.” – J.S. Porter
Robert Bringhurst is a poet, typographer, translator, book designer, and linguist, well known for his award-winning translations of the Haida storytellers Skaay and Ghandl, and for his translations of the early Greek philosopher-poet Parmenides. His manual The Elements of Typographic Style has itself been translated into ten languages and is now one of the world’s most influential texts on typographic design. Bringhurst lives on Quadra Island, off the British Columbia coast.
Tim Lilburn is the author of eleven books of poetry, including Kill-site, To the River, and Moosewood Sandhills, Assiniboia and Orphic Politics. He has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award in Literature twice: in 1989, for Tourist to Ecstasy, and in 2003, when he received the award for Kill-site. His most recent book of poetry is the masque The House of Charlemagne, published by the University of Regina Press, 2018. His essay collection The Larger Conversation: Contemplation and Place came out with the University of Alberta Press in 2017.
Jan Zwicky is a musician, philosopher and award-winning poet. In 1999, she won the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry for Songs for Relinquishing the Earth. Her Thirty-seven Small Songs & Thirteen Silences was also nominated for the Pat Lowther Award and the Dorothy Livesay Prize in 2006. Forge, published in 2011, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her most recent book of poetry, The Long Walk, was published in 2016 and The Experience of Meaning, a book that explores the experience of meaning and its need for recovery in contemporary culture, was published in 2019.