P.K. Page For over five decades P.K. Page has written some of the finest poems published in Canada. She is the author of ten volumes of poetry, a novel, short stories, three books for children, and a memoir entitled Brazilian Journal based on her extended stay in Brazil with her late husband Arthur Irwin who served as the Canadian Ambassador there from 1957 to 1959. A two-volume edition of her collected poems, The Hidden Room, was published in 1997 and Planet Earth - Poems Selected and New appeared in 2003 and is nominated for the prestigious Griffin Poetry Prize. P.K. Page has won the Governor General's award for poetry and was appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1999. She also is an accomplished visual artist who paints under the name P.K. Irwin. Born in England and brought up on the Canadian prairies P.K. Page has travelled extensively and now makes her home in Victoria, British Columbia.