Cornelia Hoogland

{{short description|Canadian poet}}

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| name = Cornelia Hoogland

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| birth_date = c. 1952

| occupation = Poet

| awards = Adjudicators Choice Award

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Cornelia Hoogland is a Canadian poet, playwright and retired professor. She lived on Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada, but until 2011 divided her time between London, Ontario as well, where she was a professor at the University of Western Ontario. Hoogland has performed and worked internationally in the areas of poetry and theatre. In 2004, she founded and was the director until 2011 of Antler River Poetry (formerly Poetry London), a poetry reading and workshop series.{{Cite web |title=Info – About Antler River Poetry (FKA Poetry London) – Antler River Poetry FKA Poetry London |url=https://antlerriverpoetry.ca/info-about-poetry-london/ |access-date=2023-08-11 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Both |first=Michelle |date=3 January 2023 |title=Ever heard of a chapbook? Meet a London, Ont., creator who is making them for poets coast to coast |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/poetry-books-handbound-london-ontario-1.6702045 |access-date=10 August 2023 |website=CBC News}}

Works

= Poetry =

Woods Wolf Girl (Wolsak and Wynn, 2011) is Hoogland's 6th book of poetry, and is based on the fairy tale, Red Riding Hood.{{Cite web |title=About |url=https://redridinghood2011.wordpress.com/ |access-date=2022-07-23 |website=CORNELIA HOOGLAND |language=en}} Crow (Black Moss Press), was also released in 2011.{{Cite web |title=CROW by Cornelia Hoogland |url=https://crow2011.wordpress.com/ |access-date=2022-07-23 |website=CROW by Cornelia Hoogland |language=en}} Her 2012 chapbook, Gravelly Bay (Alfred Gustav Press, 2012), is set at the ferry terminal on Denman Island. In 2017, her poem "Tourists Stroll a Victoria Waterway"[https://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/tourists-stroll-a-victoria-waterway-by-cornelia-hoogland-1.4374931] was one of five poems named to the shortlist of the CBC Poetry Prize.{{Cite web |last=Codrington |first=Dionne |date=15 November 2017 |title=5 writers make 2017 CBC Poetry Prize shortlist |url=https://www.cbc.ca/books/literaryprizes/5-writers-make-2017-cbc-poetry-prize-shortlist-1.4401595 |access-date=10 August 2023 |website=CBC}} Hoogland was a 2020/2021 featured poet as a part of Books BC's Poetry in Transit, which displays work by British Columbian poets on TransLink and BC Transit vehicles.{{Cite web |title=Poetry In Transit |url=https://www.readlocalbc.ca/resources/poetry-in-transit/ |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=Read Local BC |language=en-CA}}{{Cite web |last=Tanwar |first=Shanai |title=Poetry in Transit: Consuming art in a changing world |url=https://ubyssey.ca/culture/poetry-in-tranit-2020/ |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=The Ubyssey |language=en}} The featured poem was "P'i, Standstill" from her collection Cosmic Bowling.{{Cite web |title=Poetry in Transit 2020 |url=https://www.readlocalbc.ca/resources/poetry-in-transit/poetry-in-transit-2020/ |access-date=2023-08-10 |website=Read Local BC |language=en-CA}}

= Theater =

Hoogland adapted Woods Wolf Girl for stage as Faim de Loup, which was dramaturged by Gil Garret and Susan Ferley and included in the 2012 PlayWrights Cabaret at the Grand Theatre in London, ON.{{Cite web |last=Chisholm |first=Kenneth |date=January 18, 2012 |title=PlayWrights Cabaret 2012 |url=https://theatreinlondon.ca/2012/01/playwrights-cabaret-2012-review/ |access-date=August 18, 2022 |website=Theater in London}} Faim de Loup was selected for inclusion in the 2012 Women Playwrights International Conference, and performed as Talking in Bed.{{Cite web |date=2012-03-19 |title=Faim De Loup (Hungry Wolf) selected for Women Playwrights International |url=https://corneliahoogland.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/httpwpic-riksteatern-seselected-playsor-women-playwrights-international/ |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=Cornelia Hoogland - Canadian Writer & Poet |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=International Centre for Women Playwrights - 13 Plays Selected for 9th WPI Conference |url=https://www.womenplaywrights.org/news/850835 |access-date=2022-08-19 |website=www.womenplaywrights.org}}

Hoogland's play, Country of my Skin won the Adjudicators' Choice Award at the London One-Act Festival in 2004, Lesleigh Turner, Director. Janice Johnston directed the same play for In Good Company at the Aeolian Hall in October 2006 and in November 2006 "Country" traveled to Jakarta, Indonesia, to the Women Playwrights International conference. Her published play for children – Salmonberry: A West Coast Fairy Tale (International Plays for Young Audiences, Meriwether, 2000) – was performed at the 1999 International Women Playwrights Conference in Athens.

Bibliography

  • The Wire - Thin Bride - 1990
  • Marrying the Animals - 1995
  • You are Home - 2001
  • Cuba Journal: Language and Writing - 2003
  • Second Marriage. Canadian Poetry Association, 2005 {{ISBN|1-55253-061-2}}
  • Woods Wolf Girl - Wolsak and Wynn, 2011
  • Crow - Black Moss Press, 2011
  • Trailer Park Elegy - Harbour, 2017{{cite web |last1=Colebrook Peace |first1=Barbara |title=Poetry Review by Barbara Colebrook Peace |url=http://web.uvic.ca/malahat/reviews/203reviews_peace.html |website=Malahat Review |access-date=10 August 2023}}
  • Cosmic Bowling - Guernica Editions, 2020 (With Ted Goodden){{cite web |last1=Geordie |first1=Miller |title=Broken and Unbroken Lines |url=https://canlit.ca/article/broken-and-unbroken-lines/ |website=canadian literature |access-date=10 August 2023}}

Awards

In 2023, Hoogland was awarded the Colleen Thibaudeau Award along with Flavia Cosma for her outstanding contribution to Canadian poetry.[https://www.corneliahoogland.com/]

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