Tim Lilburn Author

Alison Calder has published widely on Canadian prairie literature and culture, including critical editions of Settlers of the Marsh and Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove, and Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn . Her poetry collections are Wolf Tree and In the Tiger Park , and with Jeanette Lynes she is the co-author of Ghost Works: Improvisations in Letters and Poems . She teaches Canadian literature and creative writing at the University of Manitoba. With The Larger Conversation, Tim Lilburn completes a manifesto on poetics, eros, philosophy, and enviro-politics that began with the classic Living in the World As If It Were Home (Cormorant Books). A Governor General's Award winner and the first Canadian to win the European Medal of Poetry and Art, he lives and teaches in Victoria, British Columbia.