Guides: Kelly Writers House Fellows 2020: Erín Moure: March 23-24

Selected Works @ Penn Libraries

Little Theatres by Erin Moure
Call Number: Van Pelt. PR9199.3.M67 T43 2005
ISBN: 0887847285
Publication Date: 2007
Erin Moure is one of the most consistently innovative, radically imaginative poets at work in Canada. With each book, Moure seeks to re-create writing from the ground up. Little Theatres appears at a pressing historical crossroads, when we most need our language to be made restive again.
O Cidadan by Erin Moure
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. PR9199.3.M67 C54 2002
ISBN: 0887846742
Publication Date: 2002
A candid and passionate consideration of citizenship viewed through the feminine, O Cidadan examines borders in language and in the body, to explore ways in which we might rethink nation and community in our era.
Planetary Noise by Erín Moure
Call Number: Van Pelt Reserves Desk - First Floor. PR9199.3.M67 A6
ISBN: 9780819576941
Publication Date: 2017
Planetary Noise: Selected Poetry of Erín Moure gathers four decades of poetry from a celebrated Canadian poet and translator who has persistently reconfigured the linguistic and material relations of English.
The Elements by Erin Moure
Call Number: Van Pelt Reserves Desk - First Floor. PR9199.3.M67 E44
ISBN: 1487003722
Publication Date: 2019
The Elements is a family book, a thinker's biography in poetry, and a polylingual homage. Poems about and for Moure's late father -- accepting his dementia as a real way of thinking "world" and "self" in a struggle against invasive powers -- are braced alongside poems invoking the struggle of Galician peasants against the invasion of the armies of Napoleon.
Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots by Erín Moure
Call Number: Van Pelt Reserves Desk - First Floor. PR9199.3.M67 Z46 2017
ISBN: 9781554201419
Publication Date: 2017
Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots is the story of a man who had no obituary and no funeral and who would have left no trace if it weren't for the woman he'd called Toots, who took everything she remembered of him and -- for seven days -- wrote it down.

Erín Moure

March 23–24, 2020

Note: this event will be held virtually on 3/30. Please tune in via KWH-TV or our YouTube channel.

Awards & Recognition

She received the 1988 Governor General's Awards for Poetry for the volume Furious.
2014 Best Translated Book Award, poetry, shortlist for White Piano by Nicole Brossard, from the French
Griffin Poetry Prize biography
2017 Harvard University WPR Creative fellowship
Pat Lowther Memorial Award,
Two A.M. Klein Prized
Three-time finalist for the Griffin Prize (twice for translations)
Two-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award (USA-Poetry)

Readings & Recordings

PennSound Author Page
Listen to seven different recordings, readings, and podcast interviews with Moure at PennSound

Learn more about Moure

Moure's personal website on Strikingly
RESONANCE: A MODERNISM from Harvard University WPR Creative Fellowship.
Readings from "Little Theatres" at the Griffin Poetry Prize.
The Holloway Series from UC Berkley.
On Translating Lupe G ó mez from Galician, from the Poetry Foundation.
Interview with New Star Books.
Interview with Ploughshare Books on translating poetry.
Profile in ditch,
Video interview with Book*Hug Press on Pillage Laud

More works @ Penn Libraries

West South West by Erin Moure
Call Number: LIBRA. PR9199.3.M67 W78 1989
ISBN: 1550650009
Publication Date: 1988
Erin Mouré's "west" is not simply an outer landscape framing people's lives; it is an inner landscape that inhabits the body and codes it. In poems that move inside this West South West of the body, Mouré explores further the source and structure of voice, memory, and desire that give the body its identity and selfness.
Furious by Erin Moure
Call Number: Van Pelt Reserves Desk - First Floor. PR9199.3.M67 F87 1988
ISBN: 0887841570
Publication Date: 1988
The poetry in Furious is charged with Mouré's characteristic energy and wit as she explores the limits of "pure" reason and the language of power. There is, too, a fresh and often celebratory look at love, and, in an unusual finale, The Acts, Mouré challenges us to explore a feminist aesthetic: of thinking, of the page, of working life and the possibility of poetry.
Sheepish Beauty, Civilian Love by Erin Moure
Call Number: Van Pelt Library. PR9199.3.M67 S48 1992.
ISBN: 1550650289
Publication Date: 1992
Erin Mouré's poetic journey explores the power of language and love in ways that are uncompromising and always exciting. Sheepish Beauty, Civilian Love is an extended outcry on the will to tenderness even in the face of its absence.

Kelly Writers House Fellows 2020: Erín Moure: March 23-24

Selected Works @ Penn Libraries

Erín Moure

Awards & Recognition

Readings & Recordings

Learn more about Moure

More works @ Penn Libraries

The scholarly discussion