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Tim Lilburn is the author of 12 books of poetry and has been nominated twice for the Governor General's Award in Literature.

Book Launch: Harmonia Mundi

College of Arts and Science graduate Tim Lilburn (BA'73) will discuss his 12th book of poetry, which was published in May

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Join the MFA in Writing Program and the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan for a conversation with College of Arts and Science graduate Tim Lilburn (BA'73) about his poetry collection, Harmonia Mundi, which was published by Corbel Stone Press in May 2022.

Date: Friday, July 29, 2022
Time: 6 pm CST
Location: Online via Zoom
Cost: Free and open to the public
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Author's bio
Tim Lilburn is the author of 12 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 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.


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