Wilfrid Laurier University Press Laurier Poetry Pack #2: Wilfrid Laurier University Press

A selection of titles from the Laurier Poetry series. Customized for each course as requested. About the Author Catherine Hunter is a poet, novelist, editor of the Musesâ Co. Press, and associate professor of English at the University of Winnipeg. Her most recent work is the novella In the First Early Days of My Death.Méira Cook was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1964, received her PhD in Canadian literature from the University of Manitoba, and has recently completed a two-year term as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia. She has published poetry, criticism, a novel and, in 2005, Writing Lovers: Reading Canadian Love Poetry by Women . She has taught creative writing in high schools, literature at university, and has worked as a freelance film and arts reviewer and editor. She lives in Winnipeg.Robert Budde teaches creative writing and critical theory at the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George. He has published four books (two poetryâ Catch as Catch and traffick , and two novelsâ Misshapen and, most recently, The Dying Poem ). He maintains two online literary journals at and .Tanis MacDonald is an associate professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Rue the Day (Turnstone Press, 2008), and the editor of Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt (WLU Press, 2006). Her book The Daughterâs Way: Canadian Womenâs Paternal Elegies was a finalist for the 2012 ACQL Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism.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.