P.K. Page

P. K. Page has written some of the best poems published in Canadaover the last five decades. In addition to winning the Governor General's awardfor poetry in 1957, she was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada in1999. She is the author of more than a dozen books, including tenvolumes of poetry, a novel, selected short stories, three books for children,and a memoir, entitled Brazilian Journal, based on her extended stay in Brazilwith her late husband Arthur Irwin, who served as the Canadian Ambassador therefrom 1957 to 1959. A two-volume edition of Page's collected poems, The Hidden Room (Porcupine's Quill), was published in 1997. In addition to writing, Page paints, under the name P. K. Irwin. She has mounted one-woman showsin Mexico and Canada. Her work has also been exhibited in various group shows, andis represented in the permanent collections of the National Gallery ofCanada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Victoria Art Gallery, amongothers. P. K. Page was born in England and brought up on the Canadian prairies. She has livedin the Maritimes and in Montreal. After years abroad inAustralia, Brazil and Mexico, she now makes her permanent home in Victoria, British Columbia.

Books by P.K. Page

Metamorphosis

Triptych

Mexican Journal

Brazilian Journal

Kaleidoscope

Uirapurú

The Sky Tree

Coal and Roses

There Once Was a Camel

The Old Woman and the Hen

The Essential P. K. Page

Jake, the Baker, Makes a Cake

The Innocent Traveller

Up on the Roof

The Filled Pen

Hand Luggage

Writing the Terrain

A Brazilian Alphabet for the Younger Reader

An International Christmas

Klee Wyck

Nights Below Station Street

Cosmologies

A Grain of Sand

Planet Earth

A Kind of Fiction

And Once More Saw the Stars

The Hidden Room

Hologram LP

Hologram

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