Kate Braid. Courtesy ABC Bookworld.
Kathleen (Kate) Braid (born March 9, 1947) is a Canadian poet.[1]
Life[]
Braid was born in Calgary, Alberta, rew up in Montreal, Quebec, and was educated in New Brunswick.[1]
She worked as a receptionist, secretary, teacher’s aide, lumber piler, construction labourer, and carpenter before finally “settling down” as a teacher. Her story of becoming a carpenter, in the face of skepticism and discouragement, is told in her 2012 memoir, Journeyman; her experiences as a carpenter are related in her poetry collections Covering Rough Ground and Turning Left to the Ladies.[2]
She has taught creative writing at Simon Fraser University, the University of British Columbia, and for 10 years at Malaspina University-College (now Vancouver Island University) in Nanaimo, British Columbia.[2]
She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, with her partner.[2]
Recognition[]
In 2015 she received the Mayor of Vancouver’s Award for the Literary Arts, for showing leadership and support for Vancouver’s cultural community.[2]
Awards[]
- Pat Lowther Memorial Award, for Covering Ground, 1992
- Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, short list, 1996
- Mother Tongue Chapbook Contest, second prize, 1997
- The Word is Out, first prize, poetry, 1997.
- Vancity Book Prize, for Inward to the Bones, 1999
- Pat Lowther Memorial Award, short listed, 1999
- Milton Acorn People’s Poetry Prize, short listed, 1999
- Burnaby Writers’ Society Finalist, Millennial Poetry Contest 2000
- Saving Wildwood Society, First prize, poetry. 2001
- Poems on BC Transit’s “Poetry in Motion”: 1996, 1998, 2005, 2010, 2011
Except where noted, award information courtesy the League of Canadian Poets.[3]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Covering Rough Ground. Vancouver, BC: Polestar, 1991; Halfmoon Bay, BC: Caitlin Press, 2014.
- Concrete's Coming!. Toronto: High Ground Press, 1992.
- Small Songs: poems (chapbook). Victoria, BC: Reference West, for the Hawthorne Society, 1994.
- To This Cedar Fountain. Vancouver, BC: Polestar Book Publishers, 1995; Halfmoon Bay, BC: Caitlin Press, 2012.
- A Woman's Fingerprint: Georgia O'Keeffe meets Emily Carr (chapbook). Salt Spring Island, BC: [m]Other Tongue, 1997.
- Inward to the Bones: Georgia O'Keeffe's journey with Emily Carr. Victoria, BC and Custer, WA: Polestar, 1998; Halfmoon Bay, BC: Caitlin Press, 2010.
- A Well-Mannered Storm: The Glenn Gould poems. Halfmoon Bay, BC: Caitlin Press, 2008.
- Turning Left to the Ladies. Kingsville, ON: Palimpsest Press, 2009.
- Rough Ground Revisited. Halfmoon Bay, BC: Caitlin Press, 2015.
Non-fiction[]
- Red Bait! Struggle of a mine mill local (with Al King). Vancouver, BC: Kingbird Publishing, 1998.
- Emily Carr: Rebel artist. Montreal, QC: XYZ Pub., 2000; Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2001.
- Journeywoman: Swinging a hammer in a man's world. Halfmoon Bay, BC: Caitlin Press, 2012.
Edited[]
- The Fish Come In Dancing: Stories from the west-coast fishery. Lantzville, BC : Strawberry Hill, 2002.
- In Fine Form: The Canadian book of form poetry (edited by Kate Braid & Sandy Shreve). Vancouver, BC: Raincoast Books, 2005; Halfmoon Bay, BC: Caitlin Press, 2013.
Poet Kate Braid reads from A Well-Mannered Storm on a visit to Thursdays Writing Collective
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Braid, Kate, ABC Bookworld, B.C. Bookworld, Web, June 30, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Kate Braid, Caitlin Press. Web, Mar. 29, 2017.
- ↑ Kate Braid, League of Canadian Poets, Poets.ca, Web, June 30, 2012.
- ↑ Search results=Kate Braid, WorldCat, Web, Mar. 30, 2017.
External links[]
- Poems
- Books
- Kate Braid at Amazon.com
- About
- Kate Braid at Caitlin Publishing
- Kate Braid at Harbour Publishing
- [Kate Braid at the League of Canadian Poets
- Kate Braid: Poet, Writer, Teacher Official website.
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