Daphne Marlatt, winner of the Dorothy Livesay Prize, will read in Sechelt on March 13.
With a BA from UBC and an MA from Indiana, Marlatt has distinguished herself as a poet, novelist, journalist, editor and teacher - notably at Capilano College.
As early as the '60s she was at the centre of West Coast poetry, an editor of the avant-garde magazine Tish, and she established herself as a major Canadian poet with the innovative long poem, Steveston, based in the fishing village with its ghosts of the Japanese internment.
In the '80s she emerged as a leading figure in the feminist movement in Canadian literature, a co-founder of the journal Tessera. Her celebrated novel, Ana Historic, further confirmed Marlatt as an innovator in literary form. The novel, as one critic said, "challenges the regulatory fictions of heterosexuality," opening up the possibilities of a thoroughgoing feminist fiction.
Marlatt's prize-winning new book, The Given, explores mother daughter relationships in a long poem that "reads with all the urgency and depth of a novel."
The reading will be at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt at 8 p.m. Admission is free, courtesy of the Canada Council.
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