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June 2012

Thursday June 28, 2012

George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award - Presented to Daphne Marlatt

Daphne Marlatt

Daphne Marlatt was born in Melbourne in 1941 and spent much of her childhood in Malaysia before emigrating to Canada in 1951. Marlatt was at the centre of the West Coast poetry movement of the 1960s, studying at UBC and with many of Donald Allen’s New American Poets, most notably Robert Creeley. Her writing includes prose narratives on the Strathcona neighbourhood of Vancouver and of Steveston and several poetry books. Selected Writing: Network is a collection of her prose and poetry published in 1980. More of her writing can be found in The New Long Poem Anthology: 2nd Edition (2000), edited by Sharon Thesen. Daphne Marlatt’s This Tremor Love Is (2001) is a memory book— an album of love poems spanning twenty-five years, from her first writing of what was to become the opening section, A Lost Book, to later, more recent sequences.
In 2009, Marlatt was awarded the Dorothy Livesay Prize for Poetry, for her innovative long poem The Given. Daphne Marlatt currently lives and works in Vancouver. In early 2006, she was appointed to the Order of Canada in recognition of a lifetime of distinguished service to Canadian culture.
Daphne Marlatt has been a featured poet on the Heart of a Poet series, produced in conjunction with Bravo! TV. Her recent work includes The Gull, the first Canadian play staged in the ancient, ritualized tradition of Japanese Noh theatre, and winner of the prestigious 2008 Uchimura Naoya Prize.
Photograph of Daphne Marlatt courtesy Roy Miki.

May 2012 : Daphne Marlatt Receives Lifetime Achievement Award

March 2012 : Zsuzsi Gartner on Studio 4 with Fanny Kiefer

December 2011 : Meredith Quartermain and Daphne Marlatt at Play Chthonics

December 2011 : Talonbooks Presents Karl and Christy Siegler's Farewell Bash

November 2011 : Shadow Catch - Daphne Marlatt Pens Libretto for Local Opera

August 2011 : Poetry is Dead: Chain Letters to the City of Vancouver

June 2011 : Bring it Home, Vancouver!

September 2010 : Invitation to the Future

September 2010 : Daphne Marlatt at the Banff Centre

March 2010 : Getting to Know Noh

BOOK AWARDS

Winner of the prestigious 2008 Uchimura Naoya Prize

BOOK AWARDS

Finalist for the 2002 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

QUOTES OF NOTE

“A masterpiece.”
— International Theatre Institute, UNESCO

QUOTES OF NOTE

“This collection is skillfully woven together.”

— Amerasia Review

“The publication of This Is My Own means that [Kitagawa’s] passionate loyalty, her rage, haven’t been left to moulder in the grave. What a relief that is. What a cause for celebration.”

— Joy Kogawa