Daphne marlatt biography of williams
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Daphne Marlatt
Daphne Marlatt is the 19th recipient of the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia. [See Acceptance Speech below]
She previously won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2009 for The Given (M&S 2008), a poetic narrative about Vancouver that she originally submitted as a novel. In her acceptance speech she said, “A good book never comes out of the blue. It is a creation of all the voices, written or spoken, that its author has heard and internalized.
The Given is full of such voices, including some of my favourite Modernist women writers like Ethel Wilson, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, and Marguerite Duras. In a sense, singling out one book as the most deserving of honour is a fiction. Each book is part of an extensive conversation through time with other writers’ books.”
In early 2006, Daphne Marlatt was appointed to the Order of Canada.
Born as Daphne Buckle to parents who left Pulau Pinang, Malaysia, prior to the Japanese occupation, Daphne Marlatt spent six years in Malaysia after World War II before she immigrated to Vancouver in 1951. Her family came to live in North Vancouver. Much of her postmodernist writing would be attuned to the adjustments, struggles and accomplishments
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Daphne Marlatt Interview, September 12th, 2014
Daphne Marlatt Interview, September 12th 2014
Ashley Clarkson
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Ok I will start the interview now
Ashley Clarkson
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Interview on September 12th at 1:30. Interview Ashley Clarkson, Interviewee: Daphne Marlatt in Vancouver. The interview is taking place via Skype.
Ashley Clarkson
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Usually I like to start an interview just by asking the really broad question about how you first became interested in poetry?
Daphne Marlatt
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Well that takes me back a long way Ashley, because the first two people who were interested themselves in poetry in my life were my mother and my grandfather. They had a long history of being interested in it together, my grandfather was a doctor, but he loved poetry and he gave my mother occasional books of poetry throughout the years. When she was a young teen and when I got to know my grandfather quite briefly, because he was only in my life for a little while. He would recite poems and he actually gave my first little dictionary, it was a pocket dictionary a slim, long shape and I could carry it around with me and he loved to play with words. When they immigrated to Canada my mother was rather um, rather negative about Canadian education in the pub
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Poetry Review contempt Tanis MacDonald
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Daphne Marlatt, Liquidities: Vancouver Poems, Then other Now (Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2013). Paperbound. 73 pp. $16.95.
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