P.K. Page

Photo: Marilyn Bowering/Hedgerow Press

Patricia Kathleen Page was born on 23 November 1916 at Swanage, England and moved with her family to Red Deer, Alberta in 1919. In 1950, after working as a scriptwriter for the National Film Board of Canada, she married William Arthur Irwin and, from 1953 to 1964, travelled with him to Australia, Brazil, and Mexico as he served as Canadian ambassador. In addition to writing, Page (as P.K. Irwin) was an accomplished visual artist. She lived in Victoria, British Columbia until her death on 14 January 2010.

Books by P.K. Page

	1944 The Sun and the Moon (as Judith Cape, novel)
	1946 As Ten as Twenty (poetry)
	1954 The Metal and the Flower (poetry)
	1967 Cry Ararat! (poetry)
	1973 The Sun and the Moon and Other Fictions (novel, short stories)
	1974 Poems Selected and New (poetry)
	1975 Planes (poetry)
	1980 Five Poems (poetry)
	1981 Evening Dance of the Grey Flies (poetry, short story)
	1985 The Glass Air (poetry)
	1987 Brazilian Journal (memoir)
	1988 Two Poems (poetry)
	1989 A Flask of Sea Water (children)
	1991 The Travelling Musicians (children)
	1993 The Goat that Flew (children)
	1994 Hologram: A Book of Glosas (poetry)
	1997 The Hidden Room, Vol. 1 (poetry)
	1997 The Hidden Room, Vol. 2 (poetry)
	1998 Alphabetical (poetry)
	2001 And Once More Saw the Stars (poetry)
	2001 A Kind of Fiction (short stories)
	2002 Planet Earth (poetry)
	2003 Cosmologies (poetry)
	2003 A Grain of Sand (children)
	2005 A Brazilian Alphabet for the Younger Reader (children)
	2006 Hand Luggage (poetry, memoir)
	2006 The Filled Pen (essays)
	2007 Up on the Roof (short stories)
	2008 Jake, the Baker, Makes a Cake (children)
	2008 The Essential P.K. Page
	2008 The Old Woman and the Hen (children)
	2009 Coal & Roses (poetry)
	2009 The Sky Tree (children)
	2010 Kaleidoscope: Selected Poems

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