Lorna Crozier, one of my favourite poets, was named to the Order of Canada. Her citation reads: "For her poetry and for her mentorship of the next generation of Canadian poets."Totally badass.
I dig the Order of Canada (I am a sucker for ceremony and tradition) and I'm happy to see a great writer be recognised for her amazing work. I think my favourite early-in-my-publishing-life moment was working on Crozier's Blue Hour of the Day collection as an intern at M&S (and by "working on", I should clarify that I was doing things like indexing -- the real editor was doing the actual work). But I already knew and loved Crozier's poems and it was so exciting to be touching manuscripts with her pencil marks on them.
Those moments of shivery reader-pleasure should always be that exciting, no matter how long you've been around books and the strange and interesting people who write them.
All of which is a long and convoluted way of saying: Congratulations Lorna!
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I love Lorna. My high school English teacher got me into her. I went to one of her readings when I was 17; it was her and Susan Musgrave. Swoon.
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