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Time Capsule ($24.95)
"I think we (poets) are like a psychic fourth estate, a conscious newspaper telling you what's been happening inside your head while you weren't noticing."; -PAT LOWTHER
Vancouver-Born Poet Pat Lowther was brutally murdered by her husband in 1975. Her body was discovered in Furry Creek, three miles south of Britannia Beach. Dorothy Livesay called her tragic death "a body blow to the cause of poetry in Canada."; Twenty-one years later her daughter found an unpublished manuscript in an attic called Time Capsule. This spring Polestar Press is publishing Time Capsule ($24.95), Lowther's last literary legacy following two posthumous books in 1977 and 1980.
At the time of her death, Lowther's third volume of poetry Milk Stone (1974) had been well received, she was teaching Creative Writing at UBC and had been elected co chair of the Canadian League of Poets. According to critic Robert Fulford, Lowther, 40, was "superbly prepared to move to a more central position in current Canadian literature."; Her death occurred when "she was on the edge of whatever fame and success Canadian poetry has to offer.";
Pat Lowther, born Patricia Louise Timmuth, was the eldest child of working class parents in North Vancouver. Her concerns varied from observations of the natural world, to love and intimate relationships, to revolution in South America and feminist politics. Roy Lowther, a teacher and left wing activist, was convicted of her murder in 1977. The Pat Lowther Poetry Prize for best first collection by a female poet is named in her honour.
ISBN = 1 896095 25 9
[BCBW 1997]
Vancouver-Born Poet Pat Lowther was brutally murdered by her husband in 1975. Her body was discovered in Furry Creek, three miles south of Britannia Beach. Dorothy Livesay called her tragic death "a body blow to the cause of poetry in Canada."; Twenty-one years later her daughter found an unpublished manuscript in an attic called Time Capsule. This spring Polestar Press is publishing Time Capsule ($24.95), Lowther's last literary legacy following two posthumous books in 1977 and 1980.
At the time of her death, Lowther's third volume of poetry Milk Stone (1974) had been well received, she was teaching Creative Writing at UBC and had been elected co chair of the Canadian League of Poets. According to critic Robert Fulford, Lowther, 40, was "superbly prepared to move to a more central position in current Canadian literature."; Her death occurred when "she was on the edge of whatever fame and success Canadian poetry has to offer.";
Pat Lowther, born Patricia Louise Timmuth, was the eldest child of working class parents in North Vancouver. Her concerns varied from observations of the natural world, to love and intimate relationships, to revolution in South America and feminist politics. Roy Lowther, a teacher and left wing activist, was convicted of her murder in 1977. The Pat Lowther Poetry Prize for best first collection by a female poet is named in her honour.
ISBN = 1 896095 25 9
[BCBW 1997]
Submitted on August 20, 2003 in By David.
