Writing a Canadian Life: P. K. Page, A Journey with No Maps
Presenter: Sandra Djwa
"What do I have to tell you? I could wish today was fifty years ago for then, chock-full of schooling and high spirits, I knew what was what. And where. And even when."
P.K. Page "Address (to the graduating class) at Simon Fraser," 1991
Sandra Djwa is a Professor Emerita in the Department of English. Her talk will present her acclaimed biography of one of English Canada's most important poets of the last fifty years. Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page was published by McGill-Queen's University Press in 2012. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non- Fiction.
This is the first in the Fall 2013 SFURA seminar series and will take place at 11:30 a.m. in the Halpern Centre. (Note the time is earlier than previous seminars.) All members of the SFU community are welcome to attend these events. The talks are free and no registration is required.