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Canadian writer (born 1946)
Arleen Paré
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
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
1980s 1990s
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)
2000s
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)
2010s
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)
2020s