Tag: Pat Lowther
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Kitchen Murders: Domestication of Violence in Women’s Writing
Several strands of my professional life collided yesterday. I’m trying to complete an email–just an email!–to participants for a Zoom webinar that commemorates Pat Lowther’s brilliant poetic legacy. A heavy cold has been hampering me, but I’ll finish it and get it out today. Except that the Lowther project, for July, reminded me that I…
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Sunday Research (with a Chance of Teaching)
Last night I dreamt I went to an academic conference again. And unlike the gothic pile that is Manderley, haunted by the charismatic first wife, the titular Rebecca, there was no food and no sex. So pretty much a standard academic conference. But in my dream, I was in charge of food and drink, but…
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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…
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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…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 