January 2022 - Pnina Granirer

January 24, 2022January 25, 2022

New Press Release for Garden of Words

Granville Island Publishing has created a new press release for Pnina’s upcoming book, Garden of Words. You can read it by following this link.

(January 24, 2022): Granville Island Publishing today announced the release of Garden of Words by poet and painter Pnina Granirer.

An acclaimed visual artist for over 60 years, Pnina Granirer has also written poetry all her life. In this collection, she offers personal reflections that are at once joyous, sharp and heartbreaking. The sculpted stones in the Gulf Islands, the joy of watching dancers’ bodies in movement, the shadow of a new plague—each vivid vignette expresses Granirer’s wish “to plant a garden of words in [her] field of colours.”

Pnina Granirer was born in Romania and lived in Israel, the US and France before coming to Canada in 1965, where she developed a career as a visual artist, showing locally, nationally and internationally. An extensive archive on her work and life can be found in the collection of the British Columbia Artists’ Archive at the University of Victoria, BC. The Trials of Eve, a limited-edition, award-winning book including drawings and poems was published in 1989. PNINA GRANIRER; Portrait of an Artist by Ted Lindberg was published in 1998 on the occasion of her 40th Retrospective Exhibition at the Richmond Art Gallery. Her memoir Light Within the Shadows appeared in 2017.

Poetry / Art

24 paintings in full colour
ISBN: 978-1-989467-57-2 (softcover)
ISBN: 978-1-989467-58-9 (ebook)
7 x 7 in. – 116 pages
$24.95 CDN
Granville Island Publishing www.granvilleislandpublishing.com

“This poignant collection serves as an important reminder of the fragile and tenuous nature of our own existence, the incredible power of art, love, community and the awe- inspiring mystery, beauty and hope we can all find when we take the time to reconnect with nature and ourselves.”
– Paul F. Crawford
Director/Curator at Penticton Art Gallery

“[Granirer] doesn’t shout but almost whispers the powerful themes of war, plague, sadness, joy and memory, questioning the human condition with delicacy and compassion.”
– Lillian Boraks-Nemetz Author of Out of the Dark
and Mouth of Truth: Buried Secrets

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022

What People Are Saying About Pnina’s New Book, ‘Garden of Words’

“[Granirer] doesn’t shout but almost whispers the powerful themes of war, plague, sadness, joy and memory, questioning the human condition with delicacy and compassion.”
– Lillian Boraks-Nemetz
Author of Out of the Dark and Mouth of Truth: Buried Secrets

Artist Pnina Granirer is also a poet who has written verse since 1945, when the 10-year-old expressed her joy at the end of WW2. The poems range in space from Romania to Israel to Canada, and include many vignettes recorded with a painter’s eye and a haiku-like intensity. Some are vividly illustrated with images selected from her long career in visual art. Among my favourites were descriptions of a racoon washing its paws, a glass of sangria in Spain, and eroded sandstones rocks in the Gulf Islands. The book ends with a moving elegy for her recently deceased husband. Readers will find much to treasure in this rich selection from the work of a talented poet-painter.
– Graham Good, Professor Emeritus of English, UBC. Translator of Rilke’s Late Poetry and Goethe’s Poems

“This collection of poems encompasses a range of subject matters, offering personal reflections that are variously joyous, sharp and heartbreaking. Interspersed with Granirer’s writing are artworks spanning many years of painting. Time collapses within these pages. They offer a window into a vivid life lived in extraordinary times, and a woman enchanted with the world around her.”
– George Harris, Curator/Director Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC

January 5, 2022January 5, 2022

Pnina at the Jewish Book Festival Vancouver

Pnina will be appearing at the Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver’s 2022 Jewish Book Festival on February 9 at 1 pm. You can register by following this link on Eventbrite.

Pnina will be introducing her new book of poetry, Garden of Words.

The Cherie Smith JCC Jewish Book Festival is one of Vancouver’s leading cultural and literary events, attracting a large and varied audience of over 5,000 people of all ages. This highly popular community-wide event brings together prominent and emerging Jewish writers and non-Jewish writers on Jewish subject matter.

Pnina joins such authors as David Baddiel, Dara Horn and Gary Barwin at this year’s event.