Mary Dalton

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Mary Dalton (born 1950) is a Canadian poet and educator. [1] [2]

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Life and career

Mary Dalton was born in the parish of Harbour Main, Newfoundland and Labrador. [3] [2]

She edited Newfoundland Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal in 1987 and was editor and co-publisher of TickleAce. A literary journal of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1980 to 1986. [4]

Dalton founded the SPARKS Literary Festival in 2009 and served also as the festival's director for the first six years. SPARKS celebrates the literary creations of Newfoundland and Labrador and showcases writers at various stages of their creative lives. It is what Dalton has called a 'word spree'". [5]

She is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's [6] and Poet Laureate of the City of St. John’s. [7] [8]

Her latest collection of poems is the limited-edition letter-press chapbook Waste Ground (Running the Goat,2017), with engravings by Abigail Rorer of Massachusetts.

Awards and honors

Dalton has won various awards for her poetry, among them the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award for Poetry in 1997, 2002 and 2006, [9] as well as the TickleAce/Cabot Award for Poetry in 1998. Her collection Merrybegot (2003) was awarded the 2005 E. J. Pratt Poetry Award and the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry. It was also shortlisted for the 2004 all-genre Winterset Award, the 2004 Pat Lowther Award, and the 2005 Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage and History Award. Her fourth collection is Red Ledger (2006), published by Véhicule Press, which was shortlisted for the E. J. Pratt Poetry Award and the Atlantic Poetry Award. In 2008 a set of her riddling poems, Between You and the Weather, was published by Running the Goat Books. Hooking: A Book of Centos was released by Véhicule Press in 2013. It was shortlisted for the 2014 J. M. Abraham Award, the newly named Atlantic Poetry Prize, and for the inaugural Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry, also in 2014.

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