Peter Trower

Haunted Hills and Hanging Valleys: Selected Poems 1969-2004

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner of the Canadian Authors Association Jack Chalmers Poetry Award (2005) "It's high time (Trower) was recognized more widely as the gifted and versatile force in Canadian poetry that he is. If this fine selection can't garner such recognition, it's hard to imagine what will." -Zach Wells, "The Danforth Review"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 143mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9781550173116
• ISBN-10: 1550173111
• Artikelnr.: 22356093

Autorenporträt

Peter Trower was born at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, England, in 1930. He immigrated to British Columbia at age ten, following the death of his test-pilot father in a plane crash. His mother married a West Coast pulp mill superintendent who drowned soon after. Trower quit school to work as a logger for twenty-two years. Since 1969, he has published more than a dozen books of poetry--from which poems were selected for Haunted Hills & Hanging Valleys: Selected Poems 1969-2004--and contributed to several issues of Raincoast Chronicles and Vancouver Magazine. Poetry collections such as Moving Through Mystery (1969), Between the Sky and the Splinters (1974), The Alders and Others (1969) and Ragged Horizons (1978) express his admiration and resentment at the magisterial power of nature. He has written three novels about the West Coast logging life: Grogan's Cafe (1993), Dead Man's Ticket (1996) and The Judas Hills (2000). In 2002, Trower was awarded the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award and had his name added to the BC Writers' Walk of Fame outside the Vancouver Public Library in recognition of his contribution to BC literature. He lives in North Vancouver, British Columbia with his faithful cat, Hangup.