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Douglas Burnet Smith (born 1949 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a Canadian poet. He is the author of fifteen volumes of poetry. His Voices from a Farther Room was nominated for the Governor General's Award, the most prestigious literary award in Canada. [1] In addition to winning numerous poetry awards, in 1989 Mr. Smith won The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize. [2] He has also represented Canada at international writers’ festivals and has served as the President of the League of Canadian Poets and as Chair of the Public Lending Right Commission of Canada. [3] His poetry has also been published in numerous literary periodicals and anthologies. He was twice a member of the Poetry Jury for the Canada Council for the Arts' Governor General's Literary Awards, in 1988 [4] and again in 2011 .
He currently teaches English literature and creative writing at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. [5]
White Corvettes (The Alfred Gustav Press, 2015)
Nine Kinds of Light (The Alfred Gustav Press, 2013)
Learning to Count. (Frontenac House, 2010)
Sister Prometheus. (Wolsak & Wynn, 2008)
Helsinki Drift. (Beach Holme Books, 2002)
Chainletter. (Trout Lily Press, 2001)
The Killed. (Wolsak & Wynn, 2000)
Thaw. (Four Humours Press, 1977)
Scarecrow. (Turnstone Press, 1980)
Light of Our Bones. (Turnstone Press, 1980)
Living in the Cave of the Mouth. (Owl's Head Press, 1987)
Ladder to the Moon. (Brick Books, 1988)
The KnifeThrower's Partner. (Wolsak and Wynn, 1989)
Voices from a Farther Room. (Wolsak and Wynn, 1992)
Two Minutes for Holding. (House of Anansi, 1995)
New Life in Dark Seas, ed. Stan Dragland (Brick Books, 2000), 126.
The Windhorse Reader: Choice Poems of ’93, ed. John Castlebury (Yarmouth, N.S.), 1993.
Let The Earth Take Note: First Anthology of the Milton Acorn Festival 1987-91 (Charlottetown: Milton Acorn Festival Publishing, 1994.
Draft: An Anthology of Prairie Poetry, ed. Dennis Cooley, (Turnstone Press, 1981), 143-45.
Section Lines, ed. Marc Duncan, (Turnstone Press, 1988), 197-98.
The Lyric Paragraph, ed. Robert Allen, (D.C. Books, Montreal, 1987), 144-46.
Arrivals: Canadian Poetry in the Eighties, ed. Bruce Meyer The Greenfield Review, 1986), 185.
Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada ed. Anne Compton, Laurence Hutchman, Ross Leckie and Robin McGrath (Goose Lane, 2002) 163-66.
Dallas Taylor Memorial Prize, 1972.
Chancellor's Prize for Poetry, University of Manitoba, 1973.
The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, 1989.
Governor General's Award for Poetry, finalist, 1993.
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Di Brandt often stylized as di brandt, is a Canadian poet and scholar from Winnipeg, Manitoba. She became Winnipeg's first Poet Laureate in 2018.
Gary Barwin is a Canadian poet, writer, composer, multimedia artist, performer and educator who lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He writes in a range of genres including poetry, fiction, visual poetry, music for live performers and computers, text and sound works, and writing for children and young adults. His music and writing have been presented in Canada, the US, Japan, and Europe.
Dennis Cooley is a Canadian writer of poetry and criticism, a retired university professor, and a vital figure in the evolution of the prairie long poem. He was raised on a farm near the small city of Estevan, Saskatchewan in Canada, and currently resides in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Barry Edward Dempster is a Canadian poet, novelist, and editor.
Patrick Frank Friesen is a Canadian author born in Steinbach, Manitoba, primarily known for his poetry and stage plays beginning in the 1970s.
Robert Hilles is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Cornelia Hoogland is a Canadian poet, playwright and retired professor. She lived on Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada, but until 2011 divided her time between London, Ontario as well, where she was a professor at the University of Western Ontario. Hoogland has performed and worked internationally in the areas of poetry and theatre. In 2004, she founded and was the director until 2011 of Antler River Poetry, a poetry reading and workshop series.
Steve McOrmond is a Canadian poet. He was born in Nova Scotia and grew up on Prince Edward Island.
Lorri Neilsen Glenn is a Canadian poet, ethnographer, and essayist. Born and raised on the Prairies, she moved to Nova Scotia in 1983. Neilsen Glenn is the author and editor of several books of creative nonfiction, poetry, literacy, ethnography, and essays. Her award-winning writing focuses on women, arts-based research, and memoir/life stories; her work is known for its hybrid and lyrical approaches. She has published book reviews in national and international journals and newspapers.
Danielle (Dani) Couture is a Canadian poet and novelist.
Richard Harrison is a Canadian poet and essayist.
Alice Major is a Canadian poet, writer, and essayist, who served as poet laureate of Edmonton, Alberta.
Mary Dalton is a Canadian poet and educator.
Heather Spears was a Canadian-born poet, novelist, artist, sculptor, and educator. She resided in Denmark from 1962 until her death in Copenhagen in 2021. She returned to Canada annually to conduct speaking and reading tours and to teach drawing and head-sculpting workshops. She published eleven collections of poetry, five novels, and three volumes of drawings. She specialized in drawing premature infants and "infants in crisis".
Patricia Young is a Canadian poet, and short story writer.
Bren Simmers is a Canadian poet and writer. She is the author of three collections of poetry, Night Gears , Hastings-Sunrise, and If, When . She is also the author of Pivot Point, a lyrical account of a nine-day wilderness canoe trip through the Bowron Lakes canoe circuit in British Columbia.
Maureen Hynes is a Canadian poet.
Catherine Owen is a Canadian poet, writer, and performer.
Tanis MacDonald is a Canadian poet, professor, reviewer, and writer of creative non-fiction. She is Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University with specialities in Canadian literature, women’s literature, and the elegy. She is the author of four books of poetry and one scholarly study, the editor of a selected works, and the founder of the Elegy Roadshow.
Richard Lemm is a poet and professor based in Prince Edward Island. He was born in Seattle, immigrated to Canada in 1967, and moved to Atlantic Canada in 1979. He has an MA in English from Queen's University and a PhD from Dalhousie University.
