Background
Major emigrated from Scotland with her sister at the age of eight, and grew up in Toronto, Ontario before working as a weekly newspaper reporter in central British Columbia.
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Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science by Major, Alice (2011) Paperback
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Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science
(Poet Alice Major was given a book on relativity at the im...)
Poet Alice Major was given a book on relativity at the impressionable age of ten, so she never quite understood why science came to be dismissed as reductive or opposite to art. She surveys the sciences of the past half-century -- from physical to cognitive to evolutionary -- to shed light on why and how human beings create poems, challenging some of the mantras of postmodern thought in the process. Part memoir, part ars poetica, part wonder-journey, Intersecting Sets is a wide-ranging and insightful amalgam.
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Time travels light
(This is Alice Major's first collection of poetry, publish...)
This is Alice Major's first collection of poetry, published by Rowan Books as one of the first titles under The Books Collective - an innovative attempt in the early 1990s to provide a way for a group of small presses in Edmonton, Alberta with shared resources in areas such as marketing and distributing books. The cover of Time Travels Light is illustrated with "Big Bang Tennis" by Colleen Philippi. The collection's five selections set out main themes that she has developed the poet ever since: science as a source of metaphor, the human relationships of family, and a wry sense of humour.
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Some bones and a story
(Some bones and a story is Alice Major's sixth book of poe...)
Some bones and a story is Alice Major's sixth book of poetry, in which she looks at the lives of some of her favourite female saints. The poet's point of view is decidedly contemporary while at the same time she manages to give these poems a medieval flavour through her use of language and imagery.
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Standard candles (Robert Kroetsch Series)
( There is a beginning and a middle. There is an arc of n...)
There is a beginning and a middle. There is an arc of narrative. There is a word, a large engraved initial. There is imperative- a cause, a god. Or not. -from "Let us compare cosmologies" Like the ever-widening universe, Standard Candles expands on Alice Major's earlier themes of family, mythology, and cosmology, teasing out subtle wonders in form and subject. Her voice resonates through experiments with old and new poetic forms as she imbues observed and imagined phenomena-from the centres of galaxies to her own backyard-with the most grounded and grounding moments of human experience, masterfully linking cosmology with the human heart. Readers of poetry and other speculative literatures in search of an emotional dimension that seamlessly intersects with the four dimensions of space and time will surely find it here.
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Alice Major
Edit Profilepresident of the Writers Guild of Alberta poet
Career
During her tenure as poet laureate, she founded the Edmonton Poetry Festival in 2006. She continues to serve on the Board of Directors for the Edmonton Poetry Festival Society as President. She has lived in Edmonton, Alberta since 1981.
She has a Bachelor (English, history) from Trinity College, University of Toronto, and works as a freelance writer specializing in utility issues.
She is past president of the Writers Guild of Alberta, and the League of Canadian Poets. She has published six collections of poetry.
Her poetry has always been influenced by her interest in science and she has published a collection of essays, "Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science" (published by University of Alberta Press in 2011).
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Works
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Time travels light
(This is Alice Major's first collection of poetry, publish...)
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Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science
(Poet Alice Major was given a book on relativity at the im...)
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Some bones and a story
(Some bones and a story is Alice Major's sixth book of poe...)
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Standard candles (Robert Kroetsch Series)
( There is a beginning and a middle. There is an arc of n...)
- Corona radiata (St. Thomas poetry series)
- Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science by Major, Alice (2011) Paperback
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Time travels light
Awards
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2009 Pat Lowther Award
The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.The Pat Lowther Memorial Award is an annual award presented by the League of Canadian Poets to the year's best book of poetry by a Canadian woman.