Lorna Crozier

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Lorna Crozier

Lorna Crozier , OC (born May 24, 1948 in Swift Current , Saskatchewan , Canada ) is a Canadian poet and writer and director of the creative writing department at the University of Victoria . In her writing career, she won several literary awards: among others, in 1992 the Governor General's Awards , the Canadian Author's Association Award for Poetry , 2000 to the BC Book Prizes belonging Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize , and in 2010 the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize . In the opinion of Canadian literary scholars, she too is one of the “ prairie poets”.

Life

Lorna Crozier was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, in 1948. She attended the University of Saskatchewan , where she received her Bachelor of Arts in 1969, and the University of Alberta , where she received her Magister Artium in English literature in 1980. In Saskatoon around 1970, she married a high school teacher named Uher and settled in the south of the city. Before publishing poetry and short stories, Crozier worked as an English teacher in a high school and in student counseling. During these years her first poem appeared in 1974 in the literary magazine Grain . By the end of 1978 she had a successful time as a writer and divorced Uher in order to live with the writer Patrick Lane .

She has also taught creative writing at the University of British Columbia Associated Banff School of Fine Arts , the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts, and the Sechelt Summer Writing Festival. Lorna Crozier was Writer-in-Residence at Cypress Hills Community College 1983, the University of Lethbridge (1987), Douglas College, British Columbia (1989), the Regina Public Library and the University of Toronto 1989.

To date, the writer has published 15 works that typically focus on human relationships, the natural environment, language, memory and perception. She has published three works with her long-time partner Patrick Lane : No Longer Two People (1979), Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets (1995) and Breathing Fire 2 (2004).

Her collection of poems What the Living Won't Let Go (1999) united in a narrative structure. Some poems followed the lives of two families from each individual birth to death: Crozier's own family and an unnamed family living in the shadows caught up in a dark and ruthless story. Other poems dealt with the psychic life of foxes or introduced the cat that ate Thomas Hardy's heart. The collection of poems was hailed as a moving collection that celebrated the joie de vivre while also naming loss and beauty. In 2000 What the Living Won't Let Go won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize .

She was to receive the next literary prize for a literary work, the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize , not for her poetry, but for the careful, effortless portrait of her hometown and her family in Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir (2009) . In it, she described in vivid pictures Swift Current, with its only main street, two high schools and three beer bars - where her father spent most of his evenings. She wrote resolutely about the grief and shame caused by poverty and alcoholism . At the center of her book, which was critically acclaimed as the literary echo of WO Mitchell , Sinclair Ross and Margaret Laurence , was her deep love for her mother Peggy. The stories of daily life - some amusing, others heartbreaking - followed alternately with prose poems. Lorna Grozier is one of the handful of writers who have won a BC Book Prize in two categories.

Lorna Crozier also won the 1992 Governor General's Awards, the Canadian Author's Association Award for Poetry, the Gold Medal of the National Magazine Award and first prize in the National CBC Literary Competition . She also received the University of Victoria Distinguished Professors Award and the University of Regina awarded her an Honorary Doctorate in Law in 2004.

The writer has given a number of benefit readings of her works for charities such as the Canadian Animal Welfare Association , Wintergreen Studios, The Land Conservancy of British Columbia, the Victoria READ Society and PEERS, a society that wants to avoid street prostitution . She has given readings on every continent except Antarctica , and on May 19, 2005, Lorna Crozier recited a poem for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II as part of Saskatchewan's centenary. Her works have so far been translated into French, Spanish and Slovenian. Clive Holden made a documentary about her in 1993 with the title The language of angels: Lorna Crozier, award-winning poet: a documentary .

She has been a member of the Royal Society of Canada since 2009 and Officer of the Order of Canada since 2011 . In the justification for the laudation, her services to the poetry and educational system of British Columbia were formulated as follows: “Lorna Crozier is one of our country's pre-eminent poets. Over the past 35 years, her award-winning work, which frequently celebrates the prairie landscape and its people, has enriched the Canadian literary scene and has been published in several languages. As an educator she has helped young writers achieve excellence and recognition. She also generously employs her talents in support of various social causes, including literacy, animal rights and the environment. "

The writer lived with her partner Patrick Lane for decades in Victoria , now in Sanich , British Columbia.

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Poetry
  • Inside is the sky. 1976 (as Lorna Uher)
  • Crow's Black Joy. 1979 (as Lorna Uher)
  • Humans and Other Beasts. 1980 (as Lorna Uher)
  • No Longer Two People. 1981 (with Patrick Lane)
  • The Weather. 1983
  • The Garden Going On Without Us. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1985, ISBN 978-0-7710-2475-7 (nominated for the Governor General's Award)
  • Angels of Flesh, Angels of Silence. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1988, ISBN 978-0-7710-2476-4 , ISBN 978-0-7710-2477-1 (nominated for the Governor General's Award)
  • Inventing the Hawk. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1992 (Winner Governor General's Award for poetry and the Pat Lowther Award 1992)
  • Everything arrives at the light. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1995, ISBN 978-0-7710-2479-5 (winner of the Pat Lowther Award )
  • A Saving Grace: Collected Poems. 1996
  • What the Living Won't Let Go. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1999, ISBN 978-0-7710-2481-8 (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2000)
  • Apocrypha of Light. 2002
  • Bones in their Wings: Ghazals. 2003
  • Whetstone. 2005.
  • Bones in Their Wings: Ghazals. 2006
  • The Blue Hour of the Day: Selected Poems. McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2007, ISBN 978-0-7710-2468-9
  • Small beneath the sky. 2009
Prose / no fiction / biography
  • Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir. Greystone Books, Vancouver / Berkeley 2009, 2nd edition 2011, ISBN 978-1-55365-577-0 (Winner of the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize 2010)
Anthologies
  • A Sudden Radiance. 1987 (with Gary Hyland )
  • Breathing Fire. Harbor, Madeira Park, British Columbia 1995 (with Patrick Lane) ISBN 978-1-55017-125-9 .
  • Desire in seven voices. Douglas & McIntyre, Toronto 1999, ISBN 978-1-55054-805-1 .
  • Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast. Greystone Books, Vancouver 2001, 2nd edition 2006, ISBN 978-1-55365-115-4 (with Patrick Lane)
  • Breathing Fire 2. 2004 (with Patrick Lane)
  • Before the first word: the poetry of Lorna Crozier (together with Catherine Hunter ), Wilfried Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario 2005, ISBN 978-0-88920-489-8 .

Awards and nominations

  • 1985: Nominated for the Governor General's Award for The Garden Going On Without Us
  • 1988: Nominated for the Governor General's Award with Angels of Flesh, Angels of Silence
  • 1992: Winner of the Governor General's Award for poetry with Inventing the Hawk
  • 1992: Winner of the Pat Lowther Award with Inventing the Hawk
  • 1995: Winner of the Pat Lowther Award with Everything Arrives at the Light
  • 2000: Winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize with What the Living Won't Let Go
  • 2010: Winner of the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize with Small Beneath the Sky: A Prairie Memoir

literature

  • John Barton: Lorna Crozier, Patrick Lane, and Aesthetic Kinship. In: The Malahat Review . No. 170, spring 2010.
  • Barbara Carey: the Grain: Lorna Crozier's Poetry Aim to Prick Holes in False Comforts. In: Books in Canada (April 1993): pp. 14-17.
  • Nathalie Cooke: Crozier (1948-). In: Robert Lecker, Jack David, Ellen Quigley (Eds.): Canadian writers and their works: poetry series, volume 11. ECW Press, Toronto Ontario 1995, pp. 77-155, ISBN 978-0-920802-43-4 .
  • Dennis Cooley: Two Saskatchewan Poets. In: Border Crossings 12.1 (1993): pp. 4-5.
  • Susan Gingell : Us Revise Mythologies: The Poetry of Lorna Crozier. In: Essays on Canadian Writing .43 (1991): pp. 67-82.
  • Susan Gingell: a reinterpretation of the myth: La poésie de Lorna Crozier. In: Ellipse .42 (1989): pp. 107-120.
  • Susan Gingell: Ways of Speech Made Plain: Saskatchewan Poetry Finds Its Voices. In: Writing Saskatchewan: 20 Critical Essays. Edited by Kenneth G. Probert. Canadian Plains Research Center, Regina 1989. pp. 122-134.
  • Doris Hillis: Real Truth, the Poetic Truth: An Interview with Lorna Crozier. In: Prairie Fire 6.3 (June 1985): pp. 4-15.
  • Bruce Meyer / Brian O'Riordan: Better Than Poetry ?: An Interview with Lorna Crozier. In: Poetry Canada Review 10.1 (1989)
  • Valerie Tamburri: Good Writing is Risk: A Profile of Lorna Crozier. In: Focus on Women (September 1993): pp. 16-20.
  • Fred Wah : Saskatchewan Poetry. In: Essays on Saskatchewan Writing . Edited by EF Dyck. Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Regina 1986. pp. 197-219.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.lornacrozier.ca/
  2. ↑ Susan Gingell: Lorna Crozier  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. University of Nebraska-Lincoln , 2011: "The strength of Crozier's identification with the land is evident in the title of her first collection, Inside Is the Sky (1976), while her kinship with its creatures, which in" Inventing the Hawk "makes her feel the bird's scream rising from her belly to echo in her skull, is sometimes stronger than the connection she feels to humans. Her affection for prairie people is, nevertheless, palpable in everything from the tall tales of "Spring Storm, 1916" to her description in "Home Town" of a freshman history student who identifies the Holy Land as something like Christ's hometown. The warmth of such feelings does not, however, blind her to the racism, misogyny, and pettiness of some hometown people. "@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / jetson.unl.edu  
  3. ↑ http://www.nwpassages.com/bios/crozier.asp
  4. ↑ Lorna Crozier.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Dr. John Archer Library. University of Regina.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.uregina.ca  
  5. ^ Lorna Crozier ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved August 21, 2016.
  6. ↑ http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/crozier/index.htm
  7. ↑ BC Book Prizes. Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2000
  8. ↑ thecommentary.ca . Interview with Joseph Planta on air. November 21, 2009. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
  9. ↑ Jacqueline Baker: The poet and the Prairies. In: The Globe and Mail . August 21, 2009. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
  10. ^ BC Book Prizes. Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize 2010. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
  11. ^ Clive Holden: The language of angels: Lorna Crozier, award winning poet: a documentary. Stewart House, Toronto 1993. (57 min) ISBN 978-1-895246-27-8 .
  12. ^ Order of Canada Investiture Ceremony. November 2, 2011. Retrieved April 16, 2012.
  13. ^ Zach Wells: Review: Whetstone by Lorna Crozier. In: Quill & Quire . March 2005. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
  14. ↑ http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/lowther/index.htm
  15. ↑ http://web.uvic.ca/malahat/issues/170.html
personal data
SURNAME Crozier, Lorna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Uher, Lorna; Uher, Lorna Jean Crozier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer, poet, university teacher
DATE OF BIRTH May 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Swift Current , Saskatchewan , Canada