Phil Hall (born 1953 in Lindsay, Ontario) is a Canadian poet. [1]
Phil Hall (born 1953 in Lindsay, Ontario) is a Canadian poet. [1]
Hall holds a M.A. in creative writing from the University of Windsor.
Phil Hall started Flat Singles Press, producing broadsides & chapbooks, when he was an undergraduate studying drama and English at the University of Windsor. After graduating with an MA in 1978, he lived in Vancouver, where he was a member of the Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union and the Vancouver Men Against Rape Collective. In the late 80s he often wrote reviews of poetry and children's literature for Books In Canada, and was the Literary Editor for This Magazine. He also edited (with Andrew Vaisius) a short-lived journal called Don't Quit Yr Day-Job.
Hall has taught writing and literature at York University, Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University), George Brown College, Seneca College and Humber College. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, the University of Ottawa, Queen's University, the University of Windsor, the University of Western Ontario, The Sage Hill Writing Experience, the Pierre Berton House, and the Banff Centre for the Arts.
In 2011, he won Canada's Governor General's Award for Poetry in English for his collection, Killdeer, a work the jury called "a masterly modulation of the elegiac through poetic time." [2] Killdeer also won the 2012 Trillium Book Award, [3] and was shortlisted for the 2012 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. [4] That was his second Griffin nomination; in 2006 his book An Oak Hunch was also nominated. Trouble Sleeping, his 2000 collection, was nominated for a Governor General's Award.
Niagara & Government was shortlisted for the ReLit Award for poetry in 2021. [5]
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The following is a list of winners and nominees in English-language categories for the Trillium Book Award, a Canadian literary award presented by Ontario Creates to honour books published by writers resident in the province of Ontario. Separate awards have been presented for French-language literature since 1994; for the winners and nominees in French-language categories, see Trillium Book Award, French.
The following is a list of winners and nominees in French-language categories for the Trillium Book Award, a Canadian literary award presented by Ontario Creates to honour books published by writers resident in the province of Ontario. Separate awards have been presented for English-language literature since 1994; for the winners and nominees in English-language categories, see Trillium Book Award, English.
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