Canadian Poets Series #35 : Meredith Quartermain
Meredith Quartermain is known across Canada for her depictions of places and their historical hauntings. Vancouver Walking won the BC Book Award for poetry. Nightmarker was a finalist for the Vancouver Book Award, and Recipes from the Red Planet , her book of flash-fictions [ see Camille Martin's review here ], was a finalist for a BC Book Award. She’s also the author of two novels ( Rupert’s Land , about 1930s Alberta, and U Girl , about life in a 1970s rooming house). See recent work online via Event magazine , The Maynard , Watch Your Head , the Parliamentary Poet Laureate website and The Capilano Review , an interview and other features via Canadian Literature , an interview conducted for The Capilano Review by Kim Minkus and an interview via Touch the Donkey , as well as a short reading online via YouTube . Quartermain was the 2012 Writer in Residence at the Vancouver Public Library, where she led workshops on songwriting and writing about neighbourhoods, a...
