Lorna Crozier in Conversation with Hal Wake
Poet Lorna Crozier shares reflections on her father and how he reveals himself through the men in her life. Crozier speaks movingly about the way writing poetry allows her to deal with her strong sense of loss, the way words in poems allow her to 'hang onto things for a while, as if suspended and captured in a bell jar of language, making people pause for a while before they disappear.' Crozier closes with a reading from her poem Packing for the Future Instructions.
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Lorna Crozier has published fifteen books of poetry, including The Blue Hour of the Day: Selected Poems; Whetstone; Apocrypha of Light; What the Living Won’t Let Go; A Saving Grace; Everything Arrives at the Light; Inventing the Hawk; Angels of Flesh, Angels of Silence; and The Garden Going On Without Us. She has also edited several anthologies, among them Desire in Seven Voices and, with Patrick Lane, Addicted: Notes from the Belly of the Beast and Breathing Fire: Canada’s New Poets. Her memoir, Small Beneath the Sky, was published in 2009. Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, she now lives in British Columbia, where she teaches at the University of Victoria. http://www.lornacrozier.ca/ (APRIL 2010)
