Acclaimed poet Tim Lilburn launches 12 poetry collection

Harmonia Mundi Canadian Launch

Fri, July 29

6 PM (CST)

Zoom / Registration through Eventbrite

On July 29, the Department of English will proudly host the Canadian launch of award-winning poet Tim Lilburn's 12th book of poetry, Harmonia Mundi.

Lilburn, USask alumnus (BA ‘73)and former STM instructor, is the recipient of the Governor General’s award for his poetry collection Kill-Site and, more recently, of the European Medal of Poetry and Art, making him the first Canadian to win this prestigious international award.

Harmonia Mundi, published by the UK publisher Corbel Stone Press, is described in sound bite form as "ghost footings of a library rising.”

Two seemingly disparate sections – Part One focusing on the suppression of Plato’s academy in the 6^th century; Part Two rooted in contemporary Canada – are connected by the theme of loss, resulting in a “timely and darkly visionary text, which… clings to a single, urgent truth: ‘You must hate / nothing’.

The Lilburn “Harmonia Mundi” launch takes place online. Tickets are free, and can be purchased via Eventbrite, here:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/tim-lilburn-presents-harmonia-mundi-tickets-380599000857

*Information retrieved from corbelstonepress.com and previous Usask article

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Tim Lilburn is the author of twelve books of poetry and has been nominated for the Governor General's Award in Literature twice: in 1989, for Tourist to Ecstasy, and in 2003, when he received the award for Kill-site. He is also the author of the three books of essays, most recently The Larger Conversation, in which Lilburn completes his trilogy on eros, politics and the environment, a project that spans more than two decades. Lilburn's work has been translated into French, Chinese, Serbian, German, Spanish, and Polish. It has been widely anthologized both in Canada and internationally. In addition to the Governor General's Award, Lilburn's work has received the Canadian Authors Association Award, the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, and the Saskatchewan Nonfiction Award. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2014. In, 2017, he became the first Canadian to be awarded The European Medal of Poetry and Art, the Homer Prize.