An Afternoon in the Park with Lorna Crozier and Rhonda Ganz
An Officer of the Order of Canada, LORNA CROZIER has been acknowledged for her contributions to Canadian literature, her teaching and her mentoring with five honorary doctorates, most recently from McGill and Simon Fraser Universities. Her books have received numerous national awards, including the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry. The Globe and Mail declared The Book of Marvels: A Compendium of Everyday Things one of its Top 100 Books of the Year, and Amazon chose her memoir as one of the 100 books you should read in your lifetime. A Professor Emerita at the University of Victoria, she has performed for Queen Elizabeth II and has read her poetry, which has been translated into several languages, on every continent except Antarctica. Her book, What the Soul Doesn’t Want, was nominated for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry. In 2018, Lorna Crozier received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. Steven Price called Through the Garden: A Love Story (with Cats), her latest nonfiction book, “one of the great love stories of our time.” Lorna Crozier lives on Vancouver Island.
RHONDA GANZ’S first collection, Frequent, small loads of laundry (Mother Tongue Publishing) won the Relit Award for Poetry. The book was also a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the Victoria Butler Book Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Malahat Review, Rattle, Room, Harvard Design Magazine, on city buses as part of Poetry in Transit and many anthologies, including Sweet Water: Poems for the Watersheds, Poems from Planet Earth, Rocksalt, Force Field: 77 Women Poets of BC, Erotic Haiku: Of Skin on Skin and Voicing Suicide. She reads crime fiction, watches Judge Judy, and needle felts fancy hearts in the Victoria home she shares with a quiet man and a cat on its third life.
3 p.m. Pioneer Park, 7130 West Saanich Road, Brentwood Bay
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