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1980s–present. Notable works. standing all the night through. Spouse. Jack Thiessen. . . ( m. 1991; died 2022) . Audrey Poetker (born 1962) is a Canadian poet and translator from New Bothwell, Manitoba.
Audrey Poetker was born in 1962 in Steinbach, Manitoba. Her poetry has appeared in Waves, Scrivener, Quarry, The Dinosaur Review and Herizons.
By (author): Audrey Poetker Making strange to yourself beats with a great, raw desire to know and experience; the poems rage with truth, sing their steadfast faith in the body, chant their incantations, moving us to deeper sorrow, greater longing and imagination.
Audrey Poetker's new poetry is about "what the heart imagines," about times of "burning, shining faith" and moments when "the train disappear[s] and/[your] heart [does] not even yearn." These poems are about the power of love to invent and destroy, love as "a place to begin from" and love that lets you forget until "there is not even a whisper ...
Oct 17, 2017 · 3. To illustrate the importance of history in Canadian Mennonite self-perception, we would like to start with excerpts from two poems by contemporary Mennonite writers from the Canadian Prairies, Audrey Poetker-Thiessen and John Weier. Poetker-Thiessen starts out with a complicated answer to a seemingly simple question of origins:
Apr 16, 1999 · Making Strange to Yourself [Poetker-thiessen, Audrey] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Making Strange to Yourself
- Audrey Poetker-thiessen
Audrey Poetker's new poetry is about "what the heart imagines," about times of "burning, shining faith" and moments when "the train disappear[s] and/[...
