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Colin Browne has published five volumes of poetry. His most recent publications are Entering Time: The Fungus Man Platters of Charles Edenshaw (Talonbooks, 2016) and The Hatch: Poems and Conversations (Talonbooks, 2015). His books have been nominated for a Governor General's Award and the Dorothy Livesay Award / B.C. Poetry Prize. He is a celebrated filmmaker; his experimental documentary White Lake was nominated for a Genie Award for Best Feature Documentary. His recent exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery, I Had an Interesting French Artist to See Me This Summer: Emily Carr and Wolfgang Paalen in British Columbia (2016), explored the brief encounter between these two Modernist artists in Victoria, B.C., in August 1939, and presented the first extensive exhibition of Paalen's work in Canada. His collaboration with composer Alfredo Santa Ana, Music for a Night in May, was presented at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre in May 2018. Recent essays exploring the links between Surrealism and the art of the Northwest Coast have appeared in exhibition catalogues in the U.S. and Europe. He is currently working on new curatorial projects and preparing a collection of essays for publication. Until recently, he taught in the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, where he is Professor Emeritus.
“Colin Browne’s books can delight you in all ways. He is erudite
and he is a slangster. Again in this big new volume we happily find
an alarming cohabitation of learnedness and tomfoolery. He will
quote from Plato and Frank Loesser on the same page. And there is
so much there … Reading silently anywhere in the book, you can feel
the words on your lips, he is so attentive to them. And once you
sink into reading you know that you could be here forevermore.”
—George Bowering
“From rhythm sticks of phrases and words, cross-cultural as well as
deeply familial, Colin Browne musics together a powerful series of
poems, a mnemonic for ‘lighting up the routes between worlds.’
Recurrent war thrums in the ‘lyre’ strings of the local, even in
the cables of Vancouver’s soaring bridge. These poems light up like
accurate stars the “dark bight” we constantly ‘skiff’ across. The
Properties is a major work from a poet writing at the peak of both
outrage and love.”
— Daphne Marlatt
“In their wide-ranging, restless yet nevertheless focused reach,
Colin Browne’s poems are packed with the unexpected detail only an
alert mind can record, and in their refusal to explain themselves
exhilarate the reader to connect, in his or her own surprised
wonder, the seen with the unseen, the familiar with the strange;
generating that invisible world always behind and in words. ‘Here
there’s only now,’ says one poem, ‘beyond knowing.’ There’s a
pedagogy here, and celebration—love, delight and thought their
properties.”
—Peter Quartermain
“An environment of modulations, of feelings that don’t reveal
themselves as nameable, sellable. Not aesthetic properties. Nothing
redeeming in the destruction of cities. Not more musical to bomb an
opera house than to bomb a factory. Hence: Stravinsky, Igor. Each
tonal anchor only a pretext to swim into another key. Hence:
Strauss, Richard. Such terrible accidents. Intersections not
revelations. So much out, everything in. Crossings not
consummations. What music exactly envies. Erudition
without knowingness, quality of always. Always of something
discovered not told.”
—Donato Mancini
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