Nominated for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award (Manitoba Writing and Publishing Awards). The poems in Elizabeth Went West speak in voices revolving around the lives of women. The title selection is an imagined correspondence among three women: Elizabeth Russell, an 18th-century diarist, who owned a great deal of land in what is now Toronto, the 19th-century Canadian writer Susanna Moodie, and an unnamed present-day poet. The other women in Horner's poetry allude to points all over the world but their view is firmly rooted in the prairies and Canadian city life. The speakers in her poems touch upon important, universal human issues like sex, marriage, and parenthood.
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Horner "excels at constructing narrative."
- Arc Magazine
Horner "achieves a freshness through her thematic insights and undecorative (yet) musical language."
- Shannon Hengen, CBRA
"The poems in Elizabeth Went West are deftly and elegantly crafted...Horner, the careful maker of thoughtful, writerly women, their words and worlds."
- Kerry Ryan, Zygote
"Mothers are lost but they are also found and Horner, with her gentle yet probing touch, has recovered a great deal of our mothers and foremothers in this profound, innovative and often humorous examination of women's lives, past and present, factual and fictional."
- Prairie Fire Review of Books
"Elizabeth Went West contains an eclectic collection of poems that take a candid and, at times, poignant survey of the human condition."
- Sally Hatcher, CV2
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Jan Horner
Jan Horner’s first collection of poetry, Recent Mistakes (Turnstone Press), won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. Her second collection, Elizabeth Went West (Turnstone Press), was a finalist for the same prize. Jan was also a finalist for the John Hirsch Award. She was a member of the editorial collective of Contemporary Verse 2 and has served on the boards of the Manitoba Writers’ Guild and the League of Canadian Poets and as a juror for many literary awards. She has a b.a. and m.a. in English from the University of Manitoba and her Masters of Library Science from the University of Toronto. Jan lives in Winnipeg.
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