{"id":533,"date":"2012-06-15T19:35:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/patria-rivera\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:50:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:50:51","slug":"rivera","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/rivera\/","title":{"rendered":"Patria Rivera"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Patria Rivera was born and raised in the Philippines and now lives in Toronto, Ontario. In addition to four collections of poetry highlighted on this page, she co-authored Weathering: An Exchange of Poems<\/em>, and published a chapbook: Sixth from the Sixth<\/em>. Her poetry is featured in Oxford University Press’s Perspectives on Ideology <\/em>(2009), and in Elana Wolff\u2019s Implicate me: Short Essays on Reading Contemporary Poems<\/em><\/a> (2010).
Rivera holds a journalism degree from the University of the Philippines. She has also undertaken media and editing studies at the International Training Institute in Sydney, Australia, the International Institute for Journalism in Berlin, Germany, and the Nieman Center for Journalism at Harvard University.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

BE<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Winnipeg: Signature Editions, 2011.
PS8635 .I943 B4 2011<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In a collage of disparate images, the BE poems spin together individual and collective states of feelings to examine the fragments of the human condition. Picture the man and woman wandering forlornly through an abandoned universe. Or the stupefied, brutalized, impoverished inhabitants in feudal backwater villages who appear to the outside world to suffer a quiet, gentle contentment and peace. Or how we all live by pushing rocks up slopes or by bottling the ashes of a once-dormant-now-live volcano for hawking to tourists as souvenirs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Bride Anthology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Calgary, Alta: Frontenac House, 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The ways of love are long and torturous. They include the ability to start over after things have blown up as well as the fine art of remembering the good times and forgetting the bad. Sometimes we need an old, never-married aunt to bring us back to an understanding of where true love resides. Or a Catullus who keeps on redefining what the ideal love relationship is. Or someone who has loved too fast and too furiously. The convoluted paths of love never fail to beguile. Catch this poet as she runs after the fickleness of love and longing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Puti\/White<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Calgary, Alta.: Frontenac House, 2005.
(Series: Quartet 2005)
PS8635 .I943 P88 2005<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Puti\/White<\/em> explores the past in places buried under layers of shifting reality. Here a poet searches for her lost roots – partly remembered, partly imagined – where language questions the everyday and probes the persistent difficulties of preserving the personal from the pull of the public world. These poems seek to capture the voices that lie within, those engagements of the particular with the universal that spark moments of grace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2005 Eric Hill Award of Poetic Excellence<\/a> (2nd prize winner)
2006 Trillium Book Award–English poetry<\/a> (Shortlisted)
2007 Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry<\/a> (Co-winner with Igloria, Luisa. Trill & Mordent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Time Between<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Winnipeg: Signature Editions, 2018.
PS8635 .I943 T56 2018<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Time Between <\/em>is a series of conversations with a contemplative heft, only in this case infected and inflected by operation-manual speech and military-industrial-complex mores and malaise\u2014as if the other had been forced to contemplate violence in a real way, had been forced out into the crowded world, forced to let in multiple and troubled points of view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cI\u201d in this book moves from person to person and from person to place, following an urge to shape the chaos of life into language that is sometimes undecipherable, sometimes ludic or comic. Layers and mixed states mine the depths of modern anguish and disbelief. But there is joy in the spirit of these poems, even when it\u2019s scant and spare; even when it\u2019s living off scraps of love, solace and exaltation; even when it\u2019s yearning to let the mind or the heart go uncaged, if only for a transitory moment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Magdaragat: An Anthology of Filipino-Canadian Writing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Teodoro Alcuitas, C.E. Gatchalian, and Patria Rivera.
Cormorant Books, 2023.
PS8235.F55 M34 2023<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Includes works by Rivera.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Links<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Patria Rivera member profile<\/a> from the Writers’ Union of Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Patria Rivera personal website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Frontenac House<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Signature Editions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sison, Marites (Tess), “Outward and Inward: The Poetry of Patria Rivera<\/a>,” Asian-Canadian Observer [online], 12 Feb. 2022. Accessed 26 Sept. 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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