Join us for an evening with Tim Lilburn, recipient of the 2024 Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence.
The Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence recognizes Saskatchewan writers who have written a substantial body of literary work and had a significant impact on writing in Saskatchewan.
The evening will feature a reading by Tim Lilburn, followed by a conversation with Saskatoon poet Taidgh Lynch. Taidgh's poetry has appeared in Grain, Prairie Fire, Untethered Magazine, and The Waxed Lemon, he is also a sessional lecturer at the University of Saskatchewan.
About Tim Lilburn
Tim Lilburn lives in the Bowker Creek watershed in W̱SÁNEĆ territory on Vancouver Island. He is the author of 12 books of poetry, including Harmonia Mundi, The House of Charlemagne, The Names, Assiniboia, Orphic Politics, Kill-site, Moosewood Sandhills and To the River. His poetry has received the Governor General’s Award, The Canadian Authors’ Association Award, the European Medal of Poetry and Art (the Homer Prize) and the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, among other prizes. His poetry has been anthologized and translated widely. Lilburn is also the author of three earlier essay collections concerned with desire and place, Living in the World as if It Were Home, Going Home and The Larger Conversation: Contemplation and Place, and editor of two other influential books on poetics. A new essay collection, Numinous Seditions: Interiority and Climate Change, appeared from the University of Alberta Press in 2023. He has taught at the University of Victoria, the University of Saskatchewan, St. Peter’s College and Middlebury College and worked with the dance company New Dance Horizons as a writer and performer, collaborating with directors Edward Poitras and Robin Poitras. He has been a poetry editor for Grain and was one of the founders of Jackpine Press.
AGE GROUP: | Older Adults | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Speakers & Special Events | Author Reading |
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