Elizabeth Philips Book Launch

Name: Elizabeth Philips Book Launch
Start: 2026-03-12T19:00:00-06:00
Location: 3130-8th Street East, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Saskatchewan S7H 0W2

Schedule

Thu, 12 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

3130-8th Street East, Saskatoon, SK, Canada, Saskatchewan S7H 0W2 | Saskatoon, SK

Join Elizabeth Philips for the Saskatoon launch of The Time of the Great Singing.
The event will be held in the travel alcove.
A kinetic new poetry collection that sings our astonishment and our fear at how life makes and unmakes us through every love and every grief.
These poems are at once plangent and wise, fired by exacting observation of the changes that mark the natural world—the diminishing woods, the surging birdsong in spring–as well as each stage of human life. The poet struggles to understand what her experiences mean, even as a sudden turn—a mother’s illness, a father’s death—sweeps her in an entirely different direction.
Philips writes of “this borrowed ground,” our trespass on the earth none of us can own. In every movement of these poems as they flow over rough ground and smooth, there’s the thrill of discovery, and the echoing notes of what we can’t know, the mystery of changes yet to come.
Elizabeth Philips’s first novel, The Afterlife of Birds, won the City of Saskatoon Book Award and was a finalist for the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. She is the former editor of Grain magazine, and the former director the Banff Centre’s Emerging Writers Intensive. The Time of the Great Singing is her fifth book of poetry. She lives in Saskatoon.
Lloyd Ratzlaff is a former minister, counsellor, and university lecturer who has authored three books of literary nonfiction, a collection of poetry, and edited an anthology of seniors’ writings and a children’s book. He was a finalist for three Saskatchewan Book Awards, won two Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild literary nonfiction awards, and served on the boards of several writing organizations.
Photo Credit: D. W. Larson