The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction

Tag: Margaret Atwood

  • Recent Research on Canadian Crime Fiction

    I’m prepping spring/summer writing courses, and that had me looking up new and interesting sources about Canada-U.S. relations, in the hope that this will be an engaging topic for class members. Serendipitously, one of the first articles to turn up was about crime fiction–Robert M. Timko’s recent article on the first nine seasons of Murdoch…

  • Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields, and Pat Lowther’s Life and Poetry

    I’m working on an event to celebrate the brilliant poetry that Pat Lowther wrote before she was murdered when she was 40. This is a legacy that many others before me have contemplated, and it belongs most properly to her family members. Literary critics have limited emotional stakes in our work; we move on to…

  • Reading Pat Lowther’s Poetry Against the Archive

    I’ve spent much of the past several days reading and re-reading The Collected Works of Pat Lowther, edited by Christine Wiesenthal. Lowther died, in 1975, at age 40. Too often, her violent death has been considered with closer attention and care than her work. Part of this is the inevitable sensationalism, and voyeurism, linked to…