Jan Horner - biography, career, poetry
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Jan Horner was born in Galt (now Cambridge), Ontario. She works in Winnipeg as a professional librarian. Her most recent book is Elizabeth Goes West (Turnstone, 1998). Her previous book Recent Mistakes (Turnstone) won the McNally-Robinson Book of the Year Award in 1988.
Books & Chapbook
* Elizabeth Went West. [poems] Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1998.
* Enraptured Mothers, Lost Brides. [poems] Winnipeg: Staccato Chapbooks, 1996.
* Recent Mistakes [poems]. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1988.
Anthologized Poems
* "My life in hockey 2." in dropout ed. John Philbin and others. Winnipeg: Rhinocerotic Press, 1993.
* "A letter to my mother" in Section Lines: A Manitoba Anthology. Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1988
Periodical Publications - Literary
* poems in CV2, Prairie Fire, Grain, Poetry Canada Review, Border Crossings, Dinosaur Review, Arts Manitoba, Dandelion, and Quarry
Other
* "Ione Thorkelsson’s Wild Feet." Ace Art’s critical distance vol. 1 no. 3 (May 1994).
* "’A Design-Conscious Guy’: a review of David Donnell’s Settlements and The Natural History of Water." CV2 10 no. 3 (Spring 1987): 61-66.
* "Irish and Biblical Myth in Jack Hodgins’s The Invention of the World." Canadian Literature no. 99 (1983): 6-18.
Editing
* co-editor (member of the editorial collective), Contemporary Verse 2 1984 (vol. 8, no. 4) to 1990 (vol. 13, no. 1).
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http://www.library.utoronto.ca
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