Marion Quednau has won numerous awards for poetry, including a National Magazine Award, a chapbook award for Kissing: Selected Chronicles from the League of Canadian Poets, a Malahat Long Poem Prize and has won the People’s Choice Award when short-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize. Her prose has also received critical acclaim, including the SmithBooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Paradise, Later Years is her first full-length collection of poems.

"This is a highly-anticipated collection by one of the most compelling writers I’ve encountered. In long poems, prose poems and piercing lyrics, Marion Quednau spotlights the strangeness of the so-called matter of fact, of “all the unknown edges of knowing” “in our wanders for life’s hardpan meaning.” Here we encounter poems of linguistic richness, of pathos and wit, poems about love and failed relationships, a “cliffhanger” family, the untameable natural world. These are poems “for / the sake of outrageous beauty” in which “the intricacies matter.” Quednau’s is a book you can read “as if time were long again” and you are grateful for it." -- Susan Elmslie, author of Museum of Kindness