POETRY

A Grain of Sand. Markham, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2003.

Planet Earth. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.

And Once More Saw the Stars: Four Poems for Two Voices. with Philip Stratford. Ottawa: BuschekBooks, 2001.

Alphabetical/ Cosmologies. Victoria, BC: Poppy Press, 2003.

Alphabetical. Victoria: Reference West, 1998.

Rosa dei Vente. Compass Rose. Poems in Italian, translated by Francesca Valente. Ravenna: Longo Editore, 1998.

The Hidden Room, Vol. 1. Erin, ON: The Porcupine's Quill, 1997.

The Hidden Room, Vol. 2. Erin, ON: The Porcupine's Quill, 1997.

Hologram: a Book of Glosas. London, ON: Brick Books, 1994.

Two Poems. Comox, BC: Nemo Press. 1988. (limited edition of 150 copies).

The Glass Air: Poems Selected and New. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Evening Dance of the Grey Flies. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1981.

Five Poems. Toronto: League of Canadian Poets, 1980.

Planes: Poems. [with artist Mike Doyle.] Toronto: Seripress, 1975. (limited edition of 50 numbered copies, signed by author and artist).

Poems Selected and New. Toronto: Anansi, 1974.

Cry Ararat!: Poems New and Selected. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1967.

The Metal and the Flower. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1954.

As Ten, As Twenty. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1946.

Unit of 5. Ronald Hambleton, ed. Toronto: Ryerson, 1944.

OTHER WORKS

A Brazilian Alphabet for the Younger Reader. Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 2005.

A Kind of Fiction. Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 2001.

Unless the Eye Catch Fire. Toronto: Full Spectrum Press, 1994.

The Goat that Flew. Toronto: Beach Holme Press, 1993.

The Travelling Musicians. Toronto: Kids Can Press, 1991.

A Flask of Sea Water. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Brazilian Journal. Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1988.

Page, PK, ed. To Say the Least: Canadian Poets from A to Z. Toronto: Press Porcepic, 1979.

The Sun and the Moon and Other Fictions. Toronto: Anansi, 1973.

“Traveller, Conjuror, Journeyman.” Canadian Literature 46 (1970): 35-40.

“Questions and Images.” Canadian Literature 41 (1969): 17-22.

The Sun and the Moon. Toronto: Macmillan, 1944.

“A Woman of Many Words: At 84, PK Page is Still Writing, Painting, Giving Readings.” Globe & Mail Metro Edition 15 May 2001: R1, R3.

Atwood, Margaret. “P.K. Page as a Non-Snow Angel.” Malahat Review 117 (1996): 100-101.

Bartlett, Brian. “For Sure the Kittiwake.” P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works. Eds. Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace. Toronto: Guernica, 2001. 60-93.

Bartlett, Brian. “For Sure the Kittiwake: Naming, Nature and PK Page.” Canadian Literature 155 (1997): 91-111.

Bashford, Lucy and Jay Ruzesky. “Entranced.” P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works. Eds. Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace. Toronto: Guernica, 2001. 110-128.

Bashford, Lucy and Jay Ruzesky. “Entranced: an Interview with PK Page.” Poetry Canada Review 15.1 (1994): 1,3+.

Bentley, D. M. R. “‘A Subtle Mourning’: P. K. Page’s 'The Permanent Tourists.” Canadian Poetry 19 (1986): 68-73.

Body, Marjorie. “PK Page: Traveller, Conjuror, Journeyman.” Cross Canada Writers Quarterly 9.2 (1987): 4-5.

Bowering, Marilyn. “Present-present: The Slipperiness of Time or Becoming a Bird: The Work of PK Page, a Few Personal Notes and a Poem.” Malahat Review 117 (1996): 104-109.

Brown, Allan. Rev of The Hidden Room, by P.K. Page. Event 27.3 (1998/1999): 111-116.

Campbell, Wanda. “The Hidden Rooms of Isabella Valancy Crawford and P.K. Page.” Mosaic 35.4 (2002): 69-83.

Cook, Gregory M. Rev. of Cry Ararat!, by P.K. Page. Dalhousie Review 48 (1968): 151, 153.

Crawley, Alan. “Editor’s Note.” Contemporary Verse 12 (1945): 14-16.

Crawley, Lois. “P.K. 1946.” P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works. Eds. Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace. Toronto: Guernica, 2001. 129-130.

Dempsey, Ian. Rev. of The Glass Air, by P.K. Page. Books In Canada 20.5 (1991): 255.

Djwa, Sandra. “PK Page: a Biographical Interview.” Interview with P.K. Page. Malahat Review 117 (1996): 33-54.

Djwa, Sandra. “P.K. Page: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman.” Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Studies 38.1 (2004): 9-22.

Dragland, Stan. “Hidden Out in the Open: Editing and Reading P.K. Page's The Hidden Room.” Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Studies 38.1 (2004): 166-188.

Durrant, Geoffrey. “P.K. Page's ‘Portrait of Marina’.” Inside the Poem: Essays and Poems in Honour of Donald Stephens. Ed. W.H. New. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992. 174-176.

Ellis, Sarah. “Seeing the Sea: the Fairytales of PK Page.” Malahat Review 117 (1996): 68-71.

Fisher, Donald. “Eastern Perspectives in the Work of PK Page.” Malahat Review 117 (1996): 129-134.

Fisher, Susan. “The Printed Page.” Rev. of Alphabetical and Cosmologies, by P.K. Page. Canadian Literature 176 (2003): 178-179.

Foreman, Gabe. “A Paper Cage.” Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Studies 38.1 (2004): 189-190.

Francis, A. “P.K.” Canadian Art 20 (1963): 42-45.

Freake, Douglas. “The Multiple Self in the Poetry of PK Page.” Studies in Canadian Literature 19.1 (1994):
94-114.

Frye, Northrop. “Letters in Canada: 1954.” University of Toronto Quarterly 24 (1955): 247-256.

Geddes, Gary. “The Shapes of Our Content.” Laurentian University Review 8.1 (1975): 1-5.

Godard, Barbara. “Kinds of Osmosis.” Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Studies 38.1 (2004): 65-75.

Gorjup, Branko. “My Absolute Centre: Introduction to ‘Compass Rose'.” Rosa die venti/ Compass Rose. Ravenna, Italy: Longo Editore, 1998. 29-47.

Griffin, Jonathan. Rev. of The Glass Air, by P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Poetry 2 (1987): 82-88.

Hatch, Ronald B. “Poetry.” Rev. of The Glass Air, by P.K. Page. Letters in Canada (1985): 29-31.

Heenan, Michael. “Souvenirs of Some: P.K. Page Responding to a Questionnaire.” Canadian Poetry 10 (1982): 100-105.

Hutchison, Sandra. “Diamond Panes.” Rev. of The Glass Air, by P.K. Page. Canadian Literature 113/114 (1987): 247-249.

Irvine, Dean. “The Two Giovannis: P.K. Page's Two Modernisms.” Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Studies 38.1 (2004): 23-45.

Irwin, Christine. “My Grandmother's Luggage.” Malahat Review 117 (1996): 55-57.

Jamieson, Sara. “Now That I Am Dead: PK Page and the Self-elegy.” Canadian Literature 166 (2000): 63-82.

Johnston, George. “A Note on Rhythms, Exemplified in a Fan Letter to PK (Page).” West Coast Review 22.2 (1987): 23-26.

Johnston, George. Rev. of The Glass Air, by P.K. Page. Antigonish Review 89 (1992): 53-56.

Johnston, Gordon. “‘Out of the Painted Grove, My Buck’: The Escape from Irony in Avison and Page.” Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Studies 38.1 (2004): 97-107.

Keeler, J. “Interview with P.K. Page.” Canadian Forum 55 (1975): 33-35.

Killian, Laura. “Poetry and the Modern Woman: PK Page and the Gender of Impersonality.” Canadian Literature 150 (1996): 86-105.

Lane, M. Travis. “Hologram Dimensions.” P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works. Eds. Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace. Toronto: Guernica, 2001. 99-109.

Lee, John. Rev. of The Hidden Room, by P.K. Page. Quill & Quire 64.1 (1998): 31.

MacDonald, Tanis. “‘The Battle Done’: Reading the Military Father in the Poems of P.K. Page.” Canadian Poetry 53 (2003): 71-86.

MacPherson, Jay. “Memories of Ottawa.” Malahat Review 116 (1996): 88-91.

Martin, Sandra. “Much is Made in Literary Circles About PK Page Being Among the Last of a Generation of Modern Canadian Poets. Page Herself Doesn't Make Much Of It.” Canadian Press Newswire 15 May 2001.

Matthews, Carol. “P.K. Page: An Offering.” P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works. Eds. Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace. Toronto: Guernica, 2001. 153-159.

McDougall, Anne. “PK Irwin, The Painter.” Malahat Review 117 (1996): 94-98.

McNeilly, Kevin. Rev. of Hologram, by P.K. Page. Canadian Literature 157 (1998): 160-163.

McNeilly, Kevin. “Toward a Poetics of Dislocation: Elizabeth Bishop and PK Page Writing Brazil.” Studies in Canadian Literature 23.2 (1998): 85-108.

Mercer, Sandra. “The Metal and the Flower: Arthur Irwin and PK Page.” Archivist 20.2 (1994): 33-34.

Meredith, W. “A Good Modern Poet and a Modern Tradition.” Poetry (Chicago) 70 (1947): 208-211.

Messenger, Cynthia. “‘But How Do You Write a Chagall?’ Ekphrasis and the Brazilian Poetry of PK Page and Elizabeth Bishop.” Canadian Literature 142/143 (1994): 102-117.

Messenger, Cynthia. Rev. of P.K. Page And Her Works, by J.B. Orange. Canadian Literature 129 (1991): 201-203.

Messenger, Cynthia. “Selecting P.K. Page.” Canadian Poetry 35 (1994): 115-120.

Messenger, Cynthia. “‘Their Small-toothed Interlock’: Biomorphism and Mystical Quest in the Visual Art of P.K. Page and John Vanderpant.” Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Studies 38.1 (2004): 76-96.

Miller, Joseph. Rev. of The Hidden Room, by P.K. Page. New Reader (1998).

Mitha, Farouk. “Catching Fire: The Allegories of Alchemical Transformation in the Art of P.K. Page.” Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Studies 38.1 (2004): 118-128.

Musgrave, Susan. “The Hidden Room.” P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works. Eds. Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace. Toronto: Guernica, 2001. 94-98.

Namjoshi, S. “Double Landscape.” Canadian Literature 67 (1976): 21-30.

Neuman, Shirley. “Teaching P. K. Page’s ‘The Permanent Tourists’.” Canadian Poetry 19 (1986): 65-68.

Nims, J.F. “Five Young Canadian Poets.” Poetry 66 (1945): 334-40.

Orange, John. “A Conversation with PK Page.” Interview. Canadian Poetry 22 (1988): 68-77.

Orange, John. P.K. Page and her works. Toronto: ECW Press, 1989.

Orange, John. “P.K. Page: An Annotated Bibliography.” The Annotated Bibliography of Canada’s Major Authors. Ed. Robert Lecker and Jack David. Toronto: ECW Press, 1985. 207-285.

Ormsby, Eric. Introduction. Planet Earth, by P.K. Page. 11-13.

Parsons, Marnie. “Alphabetical.” P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works. Eds. Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace. Toronto: Guernica, 2001. 149-152.

Paul, Nancy. “Redressing the Balance: Female and Male in the Early Poetry of PK Page.” Essays on Canadian Writing 58 (1996): 115-135.

Peace, Barbara Colebrook and Kelly Parsons. “Seeing with the Eyes of the Heart.” P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works. Eds. Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace. Toronto: Guernica, 2001. 37-55.

Pollock, Ann. “The White Glass III.” Interview with P.K. Page. Malahat Review 117 (1996):135-144.

Pollack, Zailig. “Introduction.” Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Studies 38.1 (2004): 5-8.

Preston, M. “The Poetry of P.K. Page: A Checklist.” West Coast Review 13 (1979): 12-17.

Relke, Diana M. A. “Tracing the Terrestrial in the Early Works of P.K. Page: A Feminist Psychoanalytic Reading.” Greenwor(L)ds: Ecocritical Readings of Canadian Women's Poetry. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1999. 235-56.

Relke, Diana M. A. “Tracing a Terrestrial Vision in the Early Work of P. K. Page.” Canadian Poetry 35 (1994). 11-30.

Rhenisch, Harold. “Up Against The Wall.” P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works. Eds. Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace. Toronto: Guernica, 2001. 56-59.

Ricou, Laurie. “Literary Theory in the Classroom: Three Views of P.K. Page’s ‘The Permanent Tourists’: Introduction.” Canadian Poetry 19 (1986): 57-59.

Rogers, Linda. “Gypsy Queen.” P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works. Eds. Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace. Toronto: Guernica, 2001. 160-162.

Rogers, Linda. “Introduction.” P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works. Eds. Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace. Toronto: Guernica, 2001. 7-11.

Rogers, Linda. “P.K. Page. The Alchemist.” P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works. Eds. Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace. Toronto: Guernica, 2001. 14-21.

Rooke, Constance. “Approaching P. K. Page’s ‘Arras’.” Canadian Poetry 4 (1979).

Rose, Marilyn J. “Anthologizing P.K. Page: The Case of a Protean Poet.” Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Studies 38.1 (2004): 154-165.

Rose, Marilyn Russell. “P.K. Page.” P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works. Eds. Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace. Toronto: Guernica, 2001. 131-148.

Roy, Wendy. Rev of The Hidden Room, by P.K. Page. ARC 44 (2000): 75-79.

“Safe at Home: PK Page, Doyenne of Canadian Poets, Puts the Lie to the Notion that a Happy Childhood is Always
a Writer's Curse.” Western Living (Vancouver Edition) 29.2 (1999): 20-25.

Schoemperlen, Diane. “Four Themes in the Poetry of P.K. Page.” The English Quarterly 12.1/2 (1979): 1-12.

Shaw, Neufville. “The Poetry of P.K. Page.” Educational Record 64 (1948): 152-156.

Sherman, Kenneth. Rev. of The Hidden Room, by P.K. Page. Books In Canada 27.1 (1998): 34-35.

Slopen, Beverley. “Brazilian Journal: (Patricia Kathleen Page Irwin as PK Page, PK Irwin and Pat Irwin).” Quill and Quire 53.5 (1987): 14.

Spalding, Esta. Rev. of The Hidden Room, by P.K. Page. Border Crossings 17.1 (1998): 70.

Smith, A.J.M. “New Canadian Poetry.” Canadian Forum 26 (1947): 250-252.

Smith, A.J.M. “The Poetry of P.K. Page.” Canadian Literature 50 (971): 17-27.

Stacey, Robert David. “Looking at ‘The Gold Sun’; or, The Glosa’s Glasses.” Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Studies 38.1 (2004): 108-117.

Stiles, Diane. Rev. of The Hidden Room, by P.K. Page. Canadian Literature 160 (1999): 175-177.

Stiles, Diane. Rev. of Malahat Review: PK Page: a Special Issue, ed. Jay Ruzesky. Canadian Literature 157 (1998): 172-174.

Still Waters: The Poetry of P.K. Page [video documentary] National Film Board of Canada.

Stockholder, Kay. “Devouring Eyes in ‘The Permanent Tourists’ and Cry Ararat!.” Canadian Poetry 19 (1986): 59-64.

Sullivan, Rosemary. “A Size Larger Than Seeing: The Poetry of P.K. Page.” Canadian Literature 79 (1978):32-42.

Sullivan, Rosemary. “Meeting in Mexico.” Brick: A Literary Journal 55 (1996): 25-30.

Sullivan, Rosemary. Rev. of Hologram, by P.K. Page. Malahat Review 117 (1996): 121-128.

Sutherland, John. “P.K. Page and Preview.” Northern Review, 1942.

Sutherland, John. “The Poetry of Anderson and Page.” The Canadian Forum 27 (1947): 17.

Sutherland, John. “Poetry of P.K. Page.” Northern Review 1 (1947)" 13-23.

Sutherland, John. “Poetry of P.K. Page.” Essays, Controversies and Poems. Ed. Miriam Waddington. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1972. 101-112.

Trehearne, Brian. “Critical Episodes in Montreal Poetry of the 1940s.” Canadian Poetry 41 (1997): 21-52.

Trehearne, Brian. “Imagist Twilight: Page’s Early Poetry.” The Montreal Forties: Modernist Poetry in Transition. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. 41-105.

Trehearne, Brian. “P.K. Page and Surrealism.” Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Studies 38.1 (2004): 46-64.

Vaisius, Andrew. Rev. of The Glass Air, by P.K. Page. Books in Canada 20.5 (1991): 57.

Vavassis, Vivian. “Establishing a Context for P.K. Page’s Interest in Eastern Religions: When Papier-Mache Angels Descend Among the Metals and the Flowers.” Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Studies 38.1 (2004): 129-153.

Von Maltzahn, Nicholas. Rev of The Hidden Room, by P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Poetry 14 (1997): 121-126.

Wachtel, Eleanor. “'That’s Me, Firing Salvador’: An Interview with PK Page.” West Coast Review 22.2 (1987): 42-64.

White, Calvin. “‘My Eyes Enjoy So Much’: Poet and Painter PK Page Talks of Art, Aging, Life and Death and the
World She Has Known for More than Eight Decades.” Toronto Star, 25 June 2001: F1, F2.

Whiteman, Bruce. Rev. of The Hidden Room, by P.K. Page. Canadian Forum 76.866 (1998): 44-46.

Whitmore, Erin. “An Annotated Bibliography of Works on P.K. Page (1985-2002).” Extraordinary Presence: The Worlds of P.K. Page. Journal of Canadian Studies 38.1 (2004): 194-230.

Wiesenthal, Christine. “Looking at the World Through Topaz: P.K. Page.” Where Words Come From: Canadian Poets in Conversation. Ed. Tim Bowling. Roberts Creek, BC: Nightwood, 2002. 11-30.

Wigod, Rebecca. “Straight from the Heart: Canadian Poet PK Page and Well-know Biographer Rosemary Sullivan Venture into New Territory with Books that Explore Women’s Hearts and Minds.” Homemakers Magazine.36.3 (2001): 19.

Wilson, Milton. “Other Canadians and After.” Tamarack Review 9 (1958): 77-92.

Winkler, Donald. “Optical Allusions.” Malahat Review 116 (1996): 92-93.

Woodcock, George. “The Glitter of False Ice: PK Page, Now Better Known for her Brazilian Journal, was First a Fine Poet.” City and Country Home 7.10 (1988): 16.

Woodcock, George. “Smith’s People: Margaret Avison, P.K. Page, Jay Machpherson, Anne Wilkinson, Ralph Gustafson.” George Woodcock’s Introduction to Canadian Poetry. Toronto: ECW Press, 1993. 101-103.

Young, Patricia. “P.K. in the Classroom.” P.K. Page: Essays on Her Works. Eds. Linda Rogers and Barbara Colebrook Peace. Toronto: Guernica, 2001. 32-36.

Zwicky, Jan and Don McKay. “Three ‘Relays’ for PK.” Malahat Review 116 (1996): 58-61.

DISSERTATIONS

Kelly, Erica. “‘Falling in Love with the World’: Place, Space and the Ecopoetics of Home in the Poetry of P. K. Page.” Thesis. Queen’s University, 2004.

1985: Canadian Authors' Association Literary Award for Poetry, The Glass Air

1998: made a Companion of the Order of Canada

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