Patricia Young

Patricia Young (* 1954 in Victoria , British Columbia , Canada ) is a Canadian writer and poet . The author of poems and short stories has received several literary prizes. For example in 1988 and 1998 with the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize as well as in 1990 with the Pat Lowther Award and in 2006 with the Meltcalf-Rooke Award .

Life

Patricia Young was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1954. The feminist author has published ten volumes of poetry, a short story collection and three anthologies since her first work Traveling the floodwaters (1983).

She taught English literature at the University of Victoria , was an editorial assistant for The Malahat Review for creative writing and was writer-in-residence at various Canadian universities, including WIR at the University of New Brunswick in 2008 .

For All I Ever Needed was a Beautiful Room (1987) she received in 1988 for the BC Book Prizes belonging Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and two years later for The mad and beautiful mothers (1989) the Pat Lowther Award . Patricia Young was one of the few Canadian poets to win the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize a second time in 1998, this time with What I Remember from My Time on Earth . For her short story collection Airstream , which she wrote due to a reorientation around 2000 in poetry, she was awarded the Meltcalf-Rooke Award in 2006. In addition, the work was shortlisted for the Butler Prize and was one of the best books of the year according to The Globe and Mail .

She expressed herself as follows about her writing philosophy: "Although I've written poetry for twenty-five years, I haven't consciously worked out a personal" poetics. " I'm not consciously aware of writing a particular sort of poem, a surreal, lyric, literal or any other kind of poem; I have never tried to fit my poems into any kind of school of thought. I am aware that there is a movement of poets who refuse to write within a narrative or linear framework (going so far as to be rigorously "disassociative") and though I am somewhat sympathetic to their resistance to conventional narrative forms, I personally wouldn ' t go so far as to dismiss narrative entirely. I wouldn't dismiss anything, in fact. I use whatever works for the poem of the moment. I don't think one sits down and decides, today I will write a totally random poem, or today I will write a traditional narrative poem. The material and / or content influence the shape of the poem. Or, you could say, the poem finds its own shape. The brain craves, I think, some sort of meaning no matter how elliptical or nebulous. To write random lines, without any internal connection, is ultimately boring and meaningless, at least to me. What I do know is that in poetry anything can happen. The freedom to say anything, go anywhere, is for me, the great pleasure of writing poetry. Being an earthbound creature with all the limitations of this implies, I find the liberation of words thrilling. "

Patricia Young is married to writer and professor Terence Young , has two grown children and lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Poetry

• Traveling the floodwaters . Turnstone Press. 1983. ISBN 978-0-88801-082-7 .
• Melancholy ain't no baby. Ragweed Press, Charlottetown, PEI 1985, ISBN 978-0-920304-46-4 .
• All I ever needed was a beautiful room. Oolichan Books. 1987. ISBN 978-0-88982-073-9 .
• The mad and beautiful mothers . Ragweed Press, Charlottetown, PEI 1989. ISBN 978-0-920304-79-2 .
• Those Were The Mermaid Days: poems . Ragweed Press, Charlottetown, PEI 1991. ISBN 0-921556-14-4 .
• More watery still: poems . Anansi, Concord, Ontario, 1993. ISBN 978-0-88784-541-3 .
• What I remember from my time on earth: poems . Anansi, Toronto 1997. ISBN 978-0-88784-592-5 .
• Ruin and beauty. House of Anansi Press, Toronto 2000. ISBN 978-0-88784-649-6 .
• Here come the moonbathers. Biblioasis, Emeryville, Ontario, 2008. ISBN 978-1-897231-43-2 .
• An auto-erotic history of swings. Sono Nis Press, Winlaw, British Columbia 2010, ISBN 978-1-55039-178-7 .

Short stories

• Airstream. Biblioasis, Windsor, Ontario, 2006. ISBN 978-1-897231-01-2 .

Anthologies

• A Walk by the Seine, Canadian Poets on Paris . Black Moss Press, 1996.
• Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry. Monitor Book Co., 1995/96.
• Making Connections: Literacy from a Feminist Perspective . Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women, 1996.

Awards and nominations

• 1987: Federation of BC Writers, Literary Rites Competition, 1st Prize
• 1988: National Magazine Award for Poetry, silver medal
• 1988: CBC Literary Competition, 1988, 2nd place
• 1988: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for All I Ever Needed was a Beautiful Room
• 1990: Pat Lowther Award for The mad and beautiful mothers
• 1993: Governor General's Award nomination for More Watery Still
• 1998: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for What I Remember from My Time on Earth
• 2000: Governor General's Award nomination for Ruin & Beauty.
• 2001: Other Voices Fiction Award, 1st prize
• 2001: Matrix, first prize in the fiction category
• 2003: cbc Literary Competition
• 2004: Shortlist Journey Prize
• 2006: Meltcalf-Rooke Award , for Airstream
• 2007: Shortlist Butler Prize for Airstream
• 2009: Shortlist Bridport Prize
• 2010: ARC's Confederation Poetry Prize for the poem The Night of the Apocalypse Yahweh Tinkles the Ivories
• 2013: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, nomination for Night-Eater

Web links

• Patricia Young's website
• Bibliography on Canadian Poetry Online - University of Toronto . Retrieved April 17, 2012.
• Selection of six poems on Canadian Poetry Online - University of Toronto . Retrieved April 18, 2012.
• Lorna Crozier , Patricia Young, Patrick Lane , Mark Jarman , Jack Hodgins , Linda Rogers , Marion Farrant , Susan Musgrave , Bill Gaston , Marlene Cookshaw and WD Valgardson : Tips from authors. In: The Claremont Review. The International Magazine for Young Adult Writers. 2011. Retrieved April 18, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize - www.canadianauthors.net
2. ^ Portrait of Patricia Young - Canadian Poetry Online - University of Toronto . Retrieved April 17, 2012.
3. ↑ http://www.bcbookprizes.ca/winners/1988#poetry
4. ↑ Pat Lowther Memorial Award ( Memento of March 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ author portrait on sononis.com. Retrieved April 17, 2012.
6. ^ Writing Philosophy Patricia Young - Canadian Poetry Online - University of Toronto . Retrieved April 18, 2012.
7. ^ Author portrait of Terence Young on ABC Bookworld.com. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
8. ^ The Shortlist: Q&A with Terence Young . - www.cbc.ca. March 16, 2012. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
9. ↑ Review: Carol L. Beran: All I Ever Needed Was a Beautiful Room. In: Essays on Canadian Writing No. 39 (Herbst 1989, No. 39): pp. 98f.
10. ↑ review; Judith Kegan Gardiner: All I Ever Needed Was a Beautiful Room. In: Canadian Literature No. 121 (summer 1989)
11. ^ Review: Ruin & beauty: new & selected poems. In: The Malahat Review , No. 131 (June 2000): pp. 112-114.
12. ↑ Review: “The dazzling lyric voice, pictorial quality, empathy, and terror of Young's Ruin and Beauty: New & Selected Poems (House of Anansi) is conspicuous, as is the poet's interest in the close connection between love and loss. What appears to have changed is the attitude toward experience that informs her writing. "In: " A Review of Patricia Young's Here Come the Moonbathers, " Thirsty: A Biblioasis Miscellany , Daily Gleaner, November 20, 2008
13. ↑ Jennifer Still: POETRY: Patricia Young's poems rich in linguistic foreplay. In: Winnipeg Free Press . March 26, 2011. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
14. ↑ Maxiane Berger: An Auto-Erotic History in Poems. In: Rover. Montreal Arts uncovered. February 14, 2011. Retrieved April 18, 2012.
15. ^ Review, Jennifer Fraser: Epiphany vs. exploitation. In: World Body: Selected Stories, 4th Canadian Literature 195 (Winter 2007): pp. 191–192.
16. ↑ Complete listing . University of Toronto . Retrieved April 18, 2012.
17. ^ Governor General's Literary Awards Poetry at www.canadianauthors.net
18. ↑ Bridport Prize 2009 - Poetry Prizewinner’s ( Memento from March 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
19. ^ Awards, Readings and Recent Publications ( Memento of October 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive )