P.K. Page's formidable career spanned almost 70 years, commencing during the heyday of Canadian modernism in the 1940s and enduring well into the 21st century.
Generous, precise, and technically accomplished, her poems draw upon an astonishing range of influences, as illustrated by her interest in the demanding glosa form, wherein a poem is elaborately woven around the individual lines of a quatrain by another writer. In the recent collection Coal and Roses, entirely devoted to the glosa, each of her individual subjects, spanning centuries, is given voice in the present day via her elegant arrangements of their words amid her own.
A sampling of her poetry is available online, hosted by the University of Toronto.
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Coal and Roses allows the poet space to both research and to create, looking simultaneously to the past and to her hopes for an uncertain, metaphysical future. Included are a series of...
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