The Malahat Review presents:

Finding a Map: Writing a Biography of P. K. Page

Thursday, January 10th
7:30 p.m. (doors at 7)
UVic, Social Sciences and Mathematics Building, Room A110
FREE admission

To mark the third anniversary of P. K. Page’s passing, biographer Sandra Djwa will talk about the late and great poet. Organized by The Malahat Review, Djwa’s lecture, “Finding a Map: Writing a Biography of P. K. Page,” is part of the Faculty of Humanities’ Lansdowne Lecture series.

Sandra Djwa, a professor emerita at Simon Fraser University, published Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page with McGill-Queen’s University Press in October, 2012 to widespread acclaim, including pride of place on the long list for the 2013 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.

Elucidating the process of story-making that biography is, Djwa will shed light on the transformative life voyage that took Page from Calgary to Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City, from pen on paper to oil on canvas, and from Alice in Wonderland to Rumi and Sufism.

As part of the evening, Victoria filmmaker Arthur Makosinski will screen a ten-minute preview from his as-yet unfinished documentary, P. K. Page: Looking for Something.

More info on our website <http://www.malahatreview.ca/events/djwa_lansdowne.html>.