Patricia Young

Patricia Young (born Victoria, British Columbia) is an Canadian poet, and short story writer.^[1]

Awards

• 1993 Governor General's Award nominee for More Watery Still
• 2000 Governor General's Award nominee for Ruin & Beauty.
• 1990 Pat Lowther Award
• 1998 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
• 2003 cbc Literary Competition
• League of Canadian Poets? National Poetry Competition
• 2006 Meltcalf-Rooke Award, for Airstream

Works

• Here Come the Moonbathers. Biblioasis. 2008. ISBN 9781897231432. 
• Ruin and beauty. House of Anansi Press. 2000. ISBN 9780887846496. 
• What I remember from my time on earth: poems. Anansi. 1997. ISBN 9780887845925. 
• More watery still: poems. Anansi. 1993. ISBN 9780887845413. 
• Those Were The Mermaid Days: poems. Ragweed Press. 1991. ISBN 0921556144. 
• The mad and beautiful mothers. Ragweed Press. 1989. ISBN 9780920304792. 
• All I ever needed was a beautiful room. Oolichan Books. 1987. ISBN 9780889820739. 
• Travelling the floodwaters. Turnstone Press. 1983. ISBN 9780888010827. 

Short Stories

• Airstream. Biblioasis. ISBN 9781897231012. 

Anthologies

• A Walk by the Seine, Canadian Poets on Paris. (Black Moss Press, 1996).
• Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry. (Monitor Book Co., 1995/96).
• Making Connections: Literacy from a Feminist Perspective. (Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women, 1996)

Reviews

The dazzling lyric voice, pictorial quality, empathy, and terror of Young's Ruin and Beauty: New & Selected Poems (House of Anansi) is conspicuous, as is the poet's interest in the close connection between love and loss. What appears to have changed is the attitude toward experience that informs her writing.^[2]

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