Lorna Crozier

Lorna Crozier is the author of the memoir, Through the Garden, which was named a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book and a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. She has published 18 books of poetry, including God of Shadows, What the Soul Doesn’t Want, The Wrong Cat, Small Mechanics, The Blue Hour of the Day: Selected Poems, and Whetstone. She is also the author of Small Beneath the Sky, which won the Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. She won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry for Inventing the Hawk and three additional collections were finalists for this award. She is a Professor Emerita at the University of Victoria and an Officer of the Order of Canada, and has received five honorary doctorates for her contributions to Canadian literature. Born in Swift Current, she now lives in British Columbia.

Website: lornacrozier.ca
Instagram: @thesaskatchewanpoet

FESTIVAL BOOK

After That

From Lorna Crozier, the poet that Ursula Le Guin called a “truth teller” and “visionary,” comes this new collection of soul-stirring poems that follow the death of a loved one.

After That is a book written from the dark hollow we fall into when we lose those we love. Crozier’s sure poetry finds the words to engage with the grief that comes from the death of her partner, the writer Patrick Lane, whom she’d lived with for 40 years, many of them tumultuous. With grace and precision, she illuminates sorrow. The light the poems cast travels far enough to reach anyone who has experienced loss. These pages engage us with many familiar yet magical things – not only paper wasps, but their libraries; not only herons, but their role as aging monks. Crozier takes us through the domestic and natural worlds into the cagey and metaphysical place we call the beyond. Without offering false comfort, the poems turn over our own grief so that we can catch a glimpse of the new life inside us again.

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Shelf Life Books | Calgary Public Library

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Watch The Way We GG – Wordfest Imagine on Air
Extended Interview with Lorna Crozier – Wordfest Imagine On Air
Radio: “He had reached a place of solace within himself.” – The Next Chapter, CBC
The Quiet in Me: An Interview with Lorna Crozier – FreeFall Magazine