Thursday, January 16, 2014

Judith Krause: Saskatchewan's New Poet Laureate!

Saskatchewan's new Poet Laureate, Judith Krause. 
Congrats to Regina poet Judith Krause, recently named as Saskatchewan's new Poet Laureate!

Judith's appointment, which runs through 2014 and 2015, was celebrated this week with a reading and reception at Government House, in Regina, Saskatchewan.

A poet, editor and educator, Judith has four books of poetry with a fifth slated for publication in Fall 2014. She's the fifth to hold the title of Poet Laureate in Saskatchewan, after Glen Sorestad, Louise B. Halfe, Robert Currie, and Donald Kerr.

For more, see the Saskatchewan Writer's Guild's news release, buy and read some of her books — and watch for readings and events with our new Poet Laureate, Judith Krause!

Booklist (by Judith Krause):

  • What We Bring Home. (Coteau Books, 1986).
  • Half the Sky. (Coteau Books, 1994).
  • Silk Routes of the Body. (Coteau Books, 2001)  
  • Mongrel Love (Hagios Press, 2008)
  • Homage to Happiness. (Hagios Press, forthcoming 2014). 

Poet Laureate Judith Krause, with Her Honour,
the Honourable Vaughn Solomon Schofield,
Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan. 


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