P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works
Edited by Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace

Started in the year 2000, Guernica's Writers' Series is dedicated to individual writers. Every title is edited by a guest editor, and contains an introduction; 5 or 6 essays by different critics, scholars, and fellow writers; an in-depth interview; as well as complete biobibliographical notes. They are the ideal tools for students and for anyone interested in the work of contemporary Canadian writers. This page highlights the work in P.K. PAGE: Essays on Her Works. If you'd like to explore more books in this series click here.

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P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works
Writers Series 6, ISBN 1-55071-134-2
$10.00 Canadian-$8.00 US
Editors Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace
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"A poem, or a life, is as many faceted as a diamond. Its various aspects are known differently, the differences manifested in the many ways a jewel captures the light. This is especially true of the gemologist, P.K. Page, who has revealed so many facets of her truth that it can only be known in the quiet, unrefractive space behind the eye of the beholder. The various contributors to this collection of "fabules" about the enigmatic poet and painter all experience her canon uniquely. As she has played with light; sometimes the painter of occult landscapes, sometimes the flashing gypsy dancer, sometimes the impatient gardener in Paradise, Page is to each an exotic story teller."
-From the Introduction by Linda Rogers

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"I am a tin whistle
Blow through me
Blow through me
And make my tin
Gold"
From the poem "Request to the Alchemist", P.K. Page

In 2001, the International Year of the Poet, P.K. Page's "Planet Earth," based on lines by Pablo Neruda was sent into space by the United Nations. Poets, critics and friends in her orbit have contributed to this collection about her working life.

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About the Essays

Essays and interviews by Brian Barlett, Patricia Young, Lucy Bashford, Carol Matthews, Jay Ruzesky, Susan Musgrave, Travis Lane, Kelly Parsons, Barbara Colebrook Peace, Harold Rhenish, and Linda Rogers reveal facets of this enigmatic writer whose glittering surfaces reconcile the mysteries within and without.

Linda Rogers is a poet who lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

Barbara Colebrook Peace published Kyrie in 2001 with Sono Nis.

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