Brian Henderson (poet)

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Brian Henderson (born 1948) is a Canadian writer, poet, and photographer, whose book of poetry Nerve Language was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2007.

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Biography

Henderson, born in 1948 in Kitchener, Ontario, has a PhD in Canadian Literature from York University. [1] Henderson has worked as a university instructor, a phone jack installer, a traffic counter, a shipper/receiver, and a rock drummer.

He is the author of thirteen collections of poetry including The Alphamiricon, a deck of visual poem-cards. His work has been published in many small magazines. In the 1970s Henderson was a founding editor of RUNE .

He was the director of Wilfrid Laurier University Press from 2005-2016.

Literary activities

His poetry and literary criticism has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Antigonish Review, Canadian Forum, Canadian Literature, CVII, Descant, ECW, The Fiddlehead, Prism, Quarry, Rampike, RUNE (of which he was a founding editor for its decade of existence), Scrivener, Writ and many other literary journals since 1974. [2]

Awards

Nominations

Published works

Books: [3]

Anthologies: [10]

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References

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  4. Henderson, Brian (2022-04-15). Unfinishing. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN   978-0-2280-1149-1.
  5. "Unidentified Poetic Object". Quill and Quire. 2019-07-11. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  6. Whiteman, Bruce (2019-05-16). "Poetry that does for science what the Modernists did for cultural history". The Toronto Star. ISSN   0319-0781 . Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  7. Trainor, Kim (2020-09-12). "Like the Codex Seraphinianus: Unidentified Poetic Object by Brian Henderson". Arc Poetry. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
  8. "On Writing, with Brian Henderson". Open Book Toronto. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012.
  9. "UbuWeb Visual Poetry: Brian Henderson". www.ubu.com. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
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