Odes & Laments
A new collection by award-winning poet Fiona Tinwei Lam that explores what it means to live in an environment constantly under threat and that challenges our perceptions of the everyday, transforming the mundane into the sublime.
Fiona Tinwei Lam
Fiona Tinwei Lam has authored two poetry books, Intimate Distances (finalist for the City of Vancouver Book Award) and Enter the Chrysanthemum and a children's book, The Rainbow Rocket. She co-edited Double Lives: Writing and Motherhood (McGill-Queen's University Press), and edited The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems About Facing Cancer. Her poetry and prose appear in over 30 anthologies. Her poems have appeared twice on BC buses through the Poetry in Transit program, and her video poems have been screened locally and internationally. She has an MFA in creative writing from UBC, as well as a BA (UBC) and LLB (Queen’s) and LLM (University of Toronto). She is currently is a teacher/mentor at SFU Continuing Studies. fionalam.net
- Author is an active self-promotor who produces videos and films related to the content of her writing, and her most recent film, Plasticpoems (March 2019), was screened at the Athens 7th International Video Poetry Festival, the Trenton Film Festival 2019 and REELpoetry/HoustonTX
- Author was previously published by Caitlin Press as the author of the poetry collection Enter the Chrysanthemum and an editor of Love Me True: Writers Reflect on the Ins, Outs, Ups & Downs of Marriage
- Readings in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal and tie-in events with film showings across North America
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Nature (POE023030)
- POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Nature (POE023030)
- POETRY / Women Authors (POE024000)
