“What a joy to have a volume of selected poems by this marvellous Canadian poet, storyteller, truth-teller, visionary.” (On The Blue Hour of the Day)
 
- Ursula LeGuin, The New York Times Book Review, Jun. 3, 2007
 
 
“Lorna Crozier’s The Blue Hour of the Day... reads like one long autobiographical poem of astonishing coherence and beauty, and so powerful that, after I’d closed the book, I found that I’d unwittingly learnt several of the lines by heart.”
 
- Alberto Manguel, The London Times Literary Supplement, Nov. 30, 2007
 
 
“Stumbling onto a Lorna Crozier poem is like running into a tropical rainforest on the Prairies.”
 
- John Oughton, Books in Canada
 
 
“At the heart of Crozier’s poetry, there is a recognition of gift, the magic that sings in all of us.”
 
- Marty Gervais, The Windsor Star
 
 
“Breathtakingly down-to-earth and reassuringly lyrical, new poems by Lorna Crozier are always a reason for rejoicing.”
 
- The Globe and Mail
 
 
“[She has the] ability to create poems in which almost impossibly delicate, sharply focused imagery evokes emotional vastness.”
 
- The Vancouver Sun
 
 
“Nobody writes about sex and death quite like Lorna Crozier... [She] moves from colloquialism to grand idea with shocking ease.”
 
- Tanis MacDonald, Prairie Fire, Vol. 21, No. 1, Spring, 2000
 

“. . . she is superbly skilled, evoking dream and touching the heart surely and swiftly.”
 
- Kate Braid, The Vancouver Sun, April. 24, 1999
 

“ Crozier’s fans have come to expect graceful clarity, sly humour, a strong affinity for the animal world and a subversive feminist tilt to the mirror she holds up to human affairs.”
 
- Barbara Carey, Toronto Star
 

“If there has been a major shift in Crozier’s work over the years, it is that her language has become more compact and efficient, and her images and metaphors progressively more crystalline.”
 
- Clarise Foster, The Globe and Mail, Apr. 20, 2005
 

“By the power that Crozier’s poetic voice produces, the wounded creature, the abused and her forgiven abuser, and even her own imagined child are all suffused with a maternality grounded in her female capacity for unconditional love. That female power also overrides the agency of God when it revises Judeo-Christian mythology and hands power over to a woman,in Hunters words. The poems drawn from Mrs. Bentley’s character (AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE) repaint her subversive feminism in a loving homageto Rosss own portraiture. The mysterious intimacies chronicling Croziers love story with Patrick Lane and the grand love affair she has with the prairie skies of her birthplace are compounded with the ordinariness of daily life, in poetry that satisfies but does not satiate, ever arousing in the reader the want for more.” (On Before the First Word)
 
- Lynne Szabo, Canadian Book Review, Fall, 2007

 
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Above: A portrait of Lorna by artist Izabella Orzelski (www.artiza.com).
 
 
 

Above: A graffiti artist quotes Lorna in Petersborough, Ontario.