Welcome to Alice Major's website
Alice is an award-winning poet and essayist based in Canada. She has published twelve collections of poetry, two novels for young adults, and an award-winning collection of essays about poetry and science.
Here, you'll find:
· Alice's 12 collections of poetry.
· Her book of essays, Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks At Science.
· Information about essays in published anthologies.
· Other writing, including her first published book, The Chinese Mirror.
· Her articles about the art form in On Writing Poetry, or about the quirks of being being a poet in The Writing Life.
Find out more about Alice on the About page, or download her full CV.
Alice Major
Books
On writing poetry
Thoughts on some aspects of a poet's process. More
Think of rhyme as a 'shape' rather than an exact repetition of sounds. More.
Thoughts on how to structure a poetry manuscript. More.
How do you give necessary context for your poem? Especially if you're engaging with unfamiliar subject matter like science (or even pop culture). More.
The same and not the same: being an original poet
Poets get caught up in pursuing, not the dream, but the nightmare of originality. More.
Scansion and science
Does it matter if a poet gets the facts wrong? An essay on poetry and truth. More.
On translating poetry - Shell of Moon and Sun
What are we juggling when we translate poems from one language to another? Here's one experience - translating the poetry of Mizuzu Kaneko, from Japanese to English. More.
Genre and the pick-up truck
So what is the difference between poetry and prose? More.
