KEYNOTE
Daphne Marlatt is a poet, novelist, editor, playwright and a Member of the Order of Canada. She participated in the influential 1963 Vancouver Poetry Conference, and was an organizer of the first Women and Words conference in Vancouver in 1983. Among many other celebrated works, her 2012 book Liquidities revises past poems about Vancouver to capture "the city's genius waver[ing] in and out of focus through its tidal marks of corporate progress and enduring poverty."