Patrick Friesen - biography, career, poetry
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Born in Steinbach, Manitoba, and resident of Winnipeg for 30 years, Patrick Friesen lives in Vancouver today, teaching creative writing at Kwantlen University College. He is a poet and playwright who also writes song lyrics, text for improv piano and for modern dance.
Friesen has been short-listed for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry (1997), the Dorothy Livesay British Columbia Book of the Year (1998), and he won the Manitoba Book of the Year Award (1994). His most recent book of poems, with Harbour Publishing (2002), is the breath you take from the lord.
Books & Chapbooks
* the breath you take from the lord. Harbour Publishing, 2002. ISBN 1-55017-284-0
* carrying the shadow. Beach Holme Publishing, 1999. 111 pages ISBN 0-888-78-401-5
* st. mary at main. The Muses’Company, 1998. 94 pages ISBN 1-896239-32-3
* A Broken Bowl. Brick Books, 1997. 132 pages ISBN 0-919626-93-9
* Blasphemer’s Wheel (Selected & New Poems). Turnstone Press, 1994. 150 pages ISBN 0-88801-1792
* You Don’t Get To Be a Saint. Turnstone Press, 1992. 83 pages ISBN 0-88801-163-6
* Flicker and Hawk. Turnstone Press, 1987. 73 pages ISBN 0-88801-113-X
* Unearthly Horses. Turnstone Press, 1984. 78 pages ISBN 0-88801-088-5
* The Shunning. Turnstone Press, 1980. 105 pages ISBN 0-88801-038-9
* bluebottle. Turnstone Press, 1978. 72 pages ISBN 0-88807-007-9
* the lands i am. Turnstone Press, 1976. 44 pages
Other
* Articles, essays, reviews in various journals and magazines and books.
* Text in two dances (with artists such as Margie Gillis, Ruth Cansfield, Stephanie Ballard).
* Small Rooms, a CD of text and piano, with Marilyn Lerner (available through Patrick Friesen’s web site).
* Numerous songs with composers like Cate Friesen (her CD Joy’s Disorder) and Big Dave McLean (an upcoming, untitled CD). Audio at Patrick Friesen’s site.
About the author:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca
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