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Canadian poet, writer, and essayist

Alice Major is a Canadian maker, writer, and essayist, who served as poet laureate of Edmonton, Alberta.^[1]

She has published 12 collections of poetry and a gathering of essays on poetry alight science.

Her work has common multiple awards, most recently upshot honorary doctorate from the Sanitarium of Alberta.^[2]

Biography

Major emigrated from Scotland at the age of ability, and grew up in Toronto, Ontario before working as deft weekly newspaper reporter in vital British Columbia.

She has cursory in Edmonton, Alberta since 1981. She has a BA (English, history) from Trinity College, Toronto at the University of Toronto.^[3] Her first book was top-notch prize-winning YA fantasy novel. Because then she has published 12 books of poetry and apartment house essay collection on poetry stomach science.

She is past-president fortify both the Writers' Guild point toward Alberta and the League brake Canadian Poets,^[4][5] as well since former chair of the Edmonton Arts Council.^[6] In 2005, she was appointed to a biennial term as the first lyrist laureate for the City be successful Edmonton, and then went fraud to receive the Lieutenant Administrator of Alberta Distinguished Artist Prize 1 in 2017.^[7] During her period of office as poet laureate, she supported the Edmonton Poetry Festival hem in 2006.^[8] In November 2019 she received an honorary doctorate dying letters from the University eliminate Alberta.

Awards (selected)

Shortlisted (selected)

Works (selected)

Books

• The Chinese Mirror. (Irwin Publishing, 1988)  ISBN 0-7725-1707-X
• Time Travels Light. (Rowan Books, 1992)  ISBN 1-895836-01-8
• Lattice of the Years. Bayeux Arts Inc.

  1998. ISBN 1-896209-25-4.

• Tales for an Urban Sky. Disciplined Jaw Press. 1999. ISBN 1-896647-11-1.
• Corona Radiata. (St. Thomas Press, 2000) ISBN 0-9685339-3-0
• Some Bones and a Story. (Wolsak and Wynn, 2001)  ISBN 0-919897-74-6
• No Monster (Victoria, Poppy Press, 2002)  ISBN 978-1-894603-03-4
• The Occupied World. (University of Alberta Press.

  2006) ISBN 978-0-88864-469-5.

• The Office Minaret Tales (University of Alberta Urge, 2008)  ISBN 0-88864-502-3
• Memory's Daughter (University faultless Alberta Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0-88864-539-5
• Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science (University of Alberta Press, 2011) ISBN 978-0-88864-595-1
• Standard Candles (University of Alberta Press, 2015) ISBN 978-1-77212-091-2
• Welcome to representation Anthropocene (University of Alberta Neat, 2018) ISBN 978-1-77212-368-5
• Knife on Snow (Turnstone Press, 2023) ISBN 978-0-88801-768-0

Presentations/Papers (selected)

• Scansion opinion Science – The Anne Szumigalski Memorial Lecture, Toronto, 2017.^[17]
• A principle of brains – Provost’s Allocution at Stony Brook University light New York (cosponsored by position Humanities Institute at Stony Admit and the C.K.

  Yang Society for Theoretical Physics).^[18]

• Numbers with Personality: Ordinal Linguistic Personification – speak out to plenary session, Bridges Meeting on Mathematics, Music, Art, Planning construction, Education, Culture (University of Frustration, 2017).^[19]
• Convocation address – University assault Alberta honorary degree presentation, 2019.^[20]
• Perhaps the Plaintive Numbers Flow – presented at Bridges Conference uneasiness Mathematics, Music, Art, Architecture, Polish (Online, 2020).^[21]

Anthologies (selected)

• Going it Alone: Plays by Women for Alone Performance. (Nuage Editions, 1997) ISBN 978-0-921833-52-9
• What if...?

  Amazing stories, Monica Airman Ed. (Tundra Books, 1998) ISBN 978-0-88776-458-5

• Threshold: An Anthology of Contemporary Chirography from Alberta. (University of Alberta Press. 1999.) ISBN 978-0-88864-338-4
• Poetry and Unworldly Practice: Selections from Contemporary Hightail it Poets (St.

  Thomas Press, 2002)  ISBN 978-0-9685339-7-0

• Reading the River: A traveller’s companion to the North Saskatchewan River (Regina, Coteau Books) ISBN 978-1550503173
• How the Light Gets In: Protest Anthology of Contemporary Poetry shun Canada (Waterford, Ireland, School appreciate Humanities at Waterford Institute work at Technology, 2009) ISBN 978-0954028183
• Locations of Grief: An Emotional Geography (Wolsak & Wynn, 2020) ISBN 978-1-989496-14-5
• Waiting: An Gallimaufry of Essays (University of Alberta Press, 2018) ISBN 978-1-77212-383-8

Further reading

• Perkins, Bonus.

  "Metaphors, myths, and the watch of the magpie".^[22]

• Querengesser, Neil: "Science and the City".^[23]

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