Refabulations

About the Author

Poet, editor, and teacher Sharon Thesen has spent almost all her life in British Columbia. Artemis Hates Romance, her first book of poetry in 1980, was followed by thirteen more, three of them finalists for the Governor General's Award: Confabulations (1984); The Beginning of the Long Dash (1987); and The Good Bacteria (2006). She edited The Vision Tree: Selected Poems by Phyllis Webb (Governor General's Award, 1982), two editions of the The New Long Poem Anthology (1991 and 2001), and, with Ralph Maud, two volumes of correspondence between American poet Charles Olson and book-designer and Joyce scholar Frances Boldereff (1999 and 2012). The Receiver (2017) and The Wig-Maker (with Janet Gallant, 2021) are her most recent collections. She lives in the BC's Lake Country.

Ern Moure has published over fifty books: poetry, essays, memoir, as well as translations and co-translations of poetry from French, Spanish, Galician, Portuguese, Portuol and Ukrainian into English. Recent works are Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Ern Moure (Wesleyan, 2017), Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots (New Star, 2017), Wilson Bueno's Paraguayan Sea (Nightboat, 2017),Uxo Novoneyra's The Uplands: Book of the Courel and other poems (Veliz Books, 2020), Juan Gelman's Sleepless Nights Under Capitalism (Eulalia Books, 2020), Chantal Neveu's This Radiant Life (Book*hug, 2020), and Chus Pato's The Face of the Quartzes (Veliz Books, 2021). She lives in Montreal.