Tim Lilburn (b. 1950) has published 12 books of poetry, including To the River (1999), Kill-site (2003), Orphic Politics (2008), Assiniboia (2012), The Names (2016) and Harmonia Mundi (2022). His work has received a Governor General’s Award (Kill-site), the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award, and European Homer Medal (2017) among his many accolades. A selection of his poetry is collected in Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn (2007), edited by Alison Calder. He has produced four books of essays on poetics, eros and politics, and especially environmentalism: Living in the World as if It Were Home (1999); Going Home (2008); The Larger Conversation: Contemplation and Place (2017); Numinous Seditions: Interiority and Climate Change (2023). He has also edited and contributed to two influential essay anthologies on poetics, Poetry and Knowing and Thinking and Singing: Poetry and the Practice of Philosophy. Lilburn was a professor, in the Department of Writing, at the University of Victoria, taught philosophy and religious studies at the University of Saskatchewan and Middlebury College in the U.S. His work has been widely translated and anthologized.