Further Reading
- Davey, Frank, "P. K. Page," From There to Here: Volume II of Our Nature/Our Voices, Erin, Ontario: Press Porcepic, 1974, pp. 231–35. (Surveys Page's writing career and describes various themes in her verse. Davey asserts that "P. K. Page is unmistakenly one of the most readable of the various 'anti-life' poets of twentieth-century Canadian poetry.")
- Francis, Anne, "P. K.," Canadian Art 83, XX, No. 1 (January/February 1963): 42–5. (Comments on similarities between Page's poetry and her paintings. Francis reports that "whether she is writing or painting, P. K.'s subjective eye wears a built-in microscope so that she sees life reduced to its essence.")
- Heenan, Michael, "Souvenirs of Some: P. K. Page Responding to a Questionnaire," Canadian Poetry, No. 10 (Spring/Summer 1982): 100–05. (Presents comments made by Page in 1974 regarding her major influences, her thoughts on the relationship between the Preview and First Statement poets in the 1940s, and her views on contemporary Canadian poetry and literary criticism.)
- Sullivan, Rosemary, "A Size Larger Than Seeing: The Poetry of P. K. Page," Canadian Literature, No. 79 (Winter 1978): 32–42. (Provides an overview of Page's writings, emphasizing the visual nature of her poetry. Sullivan opines that "Page's best poems are 'radiations of extreme emergency,' expressions of a compulsion to find a visionary world commensurate to the needs of the imagination.")
- Sutherland, John, "The Poetry of P. K. Page," Northern Review, 1, No. 4 (December-January 1947): 13–23. (Discusses Page's novel The Sun and the Moon and her verse and points out that her involvement in the Preview group of poets caused a "total conversion" in the author's work. Sutherland explains that "in the later poetry the ideas are at once more topical and significant, there is greater rhythmical tension, and the phrasing is always fresh and vivid.")
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