Arleen Paré
Arleen Paré | |
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Born | Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
Occupation | poet |
Nationality | Canadian |
Period | 2000s-present |
Notable works | Paper Trail, Lake of Two Mountains |
Arleen Lyda Paré (born 1946)[1] is a Canadian writer. She has published three collections of poetry and two novels to date.
Originally from Montreal, Quebec,[2] Paré was educated in social work and adult education, and worked in social services in Vancouver, British Columbia for much of her professional career.[3] She later left her social services job to study creative writing at the University of Victoria.[4]
Her first book, Paper Trail, was published in 2007. A blend of poetry and prose about a businesswoman finding herself stifled by the weight of corporate bureaucracy,[3] the book was a shortlisted nominee for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2008,[5] and won that year's City of Victoria Butler Book Award.[6] She followed up with the novel Leaving Now in 2012.[7]
Her 2014 poetry collection Lake of Two Mountains won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2014 Governor General's Awards.[8]
A lesbian,[9] she once served on the board of Plenitude magazine.
Works
- Paper Trail (2007, ISBN 978-1897126134)
- Leaving Now (2012, ISBN 978-1894759748)
- Lake of Two Mountains (2014, ISBN 978-1926829876)
- He Leaves His Face in the Funeral Car (2015, ISBN 978-1927575925)
- The Girls with Stone Faces (2017, ISBN 978-1771314640)
- Earle Street (2020, ISBN 978-1772012507)
- First (2021, ISBN 978-1771315425)
- Time Out of Time (2022, ISBN 978-1773860794)
References
- ^ "Paré, Arleen, 1946-". viaf.org. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
- ^ "Poetry to warm the wintry soul; Writer's lifelong journey is all about learning". Times Colonist, December 27, 2008.
- ^ a b "Who says bureaucrat's life is a waste of time?; Arleen Pare used her experience to produce a prizewinning book". Victoria Times-Colonist, November 30, 2008.
- ^ "Brick Books Coast to Coast: An Interview with Arleen Paré". Open Book Toronto, April 2, 2014.
- ^ "Writers with Island ties dominate list of nominees; Winners to be announced at gala on April 26". Victoria Times-Colonist, March 7, 2008.
- ^ "Tale of paper trail a winner". Victoria Times-Colonist, October 16, 2008.
- ^ ""Leaving Now" by Arleen Pare". All Points West (CBCV-FM), August 13, 2012.
- ^ "Thomas King wins Governor General's award for fiction". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2014.
- ^ "Arleen Paré on Fact, Fiction, and her new book, Leaving Now". Plenitude, 2012.
External links
- Official website
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- F. R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott (1981)
- Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems (1982)
- David Donnell, Settlements (1983)
- Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation (1984)
- Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan (1985)
- Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (1986)
- Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds (1987)
- Erín Moure, Furious (1988)
- Heather Spears, The Word for Sand (1989)
- Margaret Avison, No Time (1990)
- Don McKay, Night Field (1991)
- Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk (1992)
- Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World (1993)
- Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room (1994)
- Anne Szumigalski, Voice (1995)
- E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996)
- Dionne Brand, Land to Light On (1997)
- Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems (1998)
- Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (1999)
- Don McKay, Another Gravity (2000)
- George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems (2001)
- Roy Miki, Surrender (2002)
- Tim Lilburn, Kill-site (2003)
- Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (2004)
- Anne Compton, processional (2005)
- John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom (2006)
- Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged (2007)
- Jacob Scheier, More to Keep Us Warm (2008)
- David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn (2009)
- Richard Greene, Boxing the Compass (2010)
- Phil Hall, Killdeer (2011)
- Julie Bruck, Monkey Ranch (2012)
- Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs (2013)
- Arleen Paré, Lake of Two Mountains (2014)
- Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me (2015)
- Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late (2016)
- Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood (2017)
- Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang (2018)
- Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild (2019)
- Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2020)
- Tolu Oloruntoba, The Junta of Happenstance (2021)
- Annick MacAskill, Shadow Blight (2022)
- Hannah Green, Xanax Cowboy (2023)