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Poetry Canadian

A Matter of Spirit

edited by Susan McCaslin

Publisher
Ekstasis Editions
Initial publish date
Sep 1998
Category
Canadian, Anthologies (multiple authors)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781896860244
    Publish Date
    Sep 1998
    List Price
    $22.95

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Description

A Matter of Spirit reaffirms the suggestion that soul-making is the true vocation of the poet. This collection of sixteen of Canada’s most important voices displays the surprising breadth and variety of the poets who continue to acknowledge the place of the sacred in daily life.

About the author

Susan McCaslin is an award-winning Canadian poet and Faculty Emerita of Douglas College in Westminster, BC where she taught English and Creative Writing for twenty-three years. She is the author of eleven volumes of poetry, including her most recent, The Disarmed Heart (May 2014). Her previous volume of poetry, Demeter Goes Skydiving (2012) was short-listed for the BC Book Prize (Dorothy Livesay Award) and the first-place winner of the Alberta Book Publishing Award (Robert Kroetsch Poetry Book Award) in 2012. Susan has published a volume of essays, Arousing the Spirit: Provocative Writings (2011) and edited two anthologies on poetry and spiritual practice. In addition, she is on the editorial board of Event: the Douglas College Review and is an editorial assistant for The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion (Harvard Divinity School). Susan is nourished by wilderness and by the world’s global mystics and contemplatives of various spiritual traditions. Freed to be a full-time writer since retiring from teaching, she lives in Fort Langley, British Columbia with her husband. Recently, she initiated the Han Shan Poetry Project as part of a successful campaign to protect an endangered rainforest along the Fraser River in British Columbia.

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