Cornelia Hoogland is a Canadian poet, playwright and retired professor. She lived on

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, but until 2011 divided her time between

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as well, where she was a professor at the

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. Hoogland has performed and worked internationally in the areas of

poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...

and

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

. In 2004, she founded and was the director until 2011 of Antler River Poetry (formerly Poetry London), a poetry reading and workshop series.

Works

Poetry

''Woods Wolf Girl'' (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011) is Hoogland's 6th book of poetry, and is based on the

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. ''Crow'' (Black Moss Press), was also released in 2011. Her 2012

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, ''Gravelly Bay'' (Alfred Gustav Press, 2012), is set at the ferry terminal on

Denman Island Denman Island, or Sla-dai-aich (Taystayic), its Indigenous name, is one of the Northern Gulf Islands and part of the Comox Valley Regional District of British Columbia, Canada. It is a member of the Islands Trust group of islands and is home ...

. In 2017, her poem "Tourists Stroll a Victoria Waterwa

was one of five poems named to the shortlist of the CBC Literary Prize, CBC Poetry Prize. Hoogland was a 2020/2021 featured poet as a part of Books BC's Poetry in Transit, which displays work by British Columbian poets on

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and

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vehicles. The featured poem was "P'i, Standstill" from her collection ''Cosmic Bowling''.

Theater

Hoogland adapted ''Woods Wolf Girl'' for stage as ''Faim de Loup'', which was

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d by Gil Garret and Susan Ferley and included in the 2012 PlayWrights Cabaret at the Grand Theatre in London, ON. ''Faim de Loup'' was selected for inclusion in the 2012 Women Playwrights International Conference, and performed as ''Talking in Bed.'' Hoogland's play, ''Country of my Skin'' won the Adjudicators' Choice Award at the London One-Act Festival in 2004, Lesleigh Turner, Director. Janice Johnston directed the same play for In Good Company at the Aeolian Hall in October 2006 and in November 2006 "Country" traveled to Jakarta, Indonesia, to the Women Playwrights International conference. Her published play for children – ''Salmonberry: A West Coast Fairy Tale'' (''International Plays for Young Audiences'', Meriwether, 2000) – was performed at the 1999 International Women Playwrights Conference in Athens.

Bibliography

*''The Wire - Thin Bride'' - 1990 *''Marrying the Animals'' - 1995 *''You are Home'' - 2001 *''Cuba Journal: Language and Writing'' - 2003 *''Second Marriage''. Canadian Poetry Association, 2005 *''Woods Wolf Girl'' - Wolsak and Wynn, 2011 *''Crow'' - Black Moss Press, 2011 *''Trailer Park Elegy'' - Harbour, 2017 *''Cosmic Bowling'' - Guernica Editions, 2020 (With Ted Goodden)

Awards

In 2023, Hoogland was awarded the Colleen Thibaudeau Award along with Flavia Cosma for her outstanding contribution to Canadian poetr

References

External links

Cornelia's Homepage

'Woods Wolf Girl' Homepage

'Crow' Homepage

Poetry London Homepage

Cornelia's other Homepage
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