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Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada
Festival 2004    July 22 - 25

Tim Lilburn

Tim Lilburn, has published six books of poetry, including Kill-site, 2003, To The River, 1999, Moosewood Sandhills, 1994 and Tourist to Ecstasy, 1989. He is the editor of - and contributor to - two collections of essays on poetrics, Poetry and Knowing, 1995 and Thinking and Singing: Poetry and the Practice of Philosophy, 2002 and the author of Living in the World as if It Were Home, 1999, a book of essays concerned with ecology and desire. 

From 1994-98, he was poetry editor of Grain. He has taught at the Sage Hill Writing Experience and the Banff School of Fine Arts, and has been writer-in -residence at the University of Western Ontario, St. Mary’s University, the University of Alberta and the Regina Public Library. He now teaches philosophy and literature at St. Peter’s College, Muenster, Saskatchewan and at St. Thomas More College, Saskatoon. 

His Moosewood Sandhills won the Canadian Authors’ Association Award for Poetry; To the River won the Saskatchewan book of the Year Award and Living in the World as if It Were Home won the Saskatchewan Non-fiction Award at the 1999 Saskatchewan Book Awards. Kill-site received the Governor General’s Award.

 Lilburn’s work has been translated into Chinese, Polish and Serbian, and his poems have appeared in journals in Australia, the US the UK, China, Poland and West Africa. In 2003, Lilburn was awarded the inaugural Canada Council Senior Fellowship, the highest award offered by the Canada Council.