I can think of no Canadian writer who so thoroughly positions us in front of the mirror that might offer us at once both reality and the imagined.

–Robert Kroetsch

WRITING

AS IN MY WIFE JUDE’S paintings, I have always been fascinated in my writing by experiments that have tried to mix realist elements with an equivalent bold use of color and form that pushes language beyond realist constraints. That’s been important to me from the beginning. As a result I followed modernist art movements carefully…

EDITING

I HAVE EDITED more than 34 books for professional publication: 11 fiction manuscripts; 18 poetry manuscripts, and 5 non-fiction manuscripts. I love editing, whether the close line-editing of a poetry manuscript, or the more complicated structural editing or character or plot editing of a novel. I have listed my fees below. They start with an…

SINGING/SONGWRITING

I HAVE BEEN so lucky to have had a long life in music as well as in literature. I started performing as a singer with my sister Susan in 1965 in Edmonton. We were teenagers; I was seventeen, and she was eighteen. A year later we were joined by our brother Harry, two years younger…