Tag: poetry
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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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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…
The Landscape of Canadian Women's Crime Fiction 