Shane Rhodes

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Shane Rhodes is a Canadian poet.

Life

He graduated from the University of New Brunswick, and currently lives in Ottawa.

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He is a two-time winner of the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry. In 2008, when his work The Bindery won the award, Rhodes turned over half of the $1,500 prize money to the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, a First Nations health centre. At the time the award was named the Lampman-Scott Award, honouring both Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott, and Rhodes felt that Scott's legacy as a civil servant who was responsible for some of Canada's more controversial policy legacy on First Nations issues overshadowed his work as a pioneer of Canadian poetry. [1]

Rhodes identifies as bisexual. [2] His work was included in John Barton and Billeh Nickerson's 2007 anthology Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets. [2]

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References

  1. "Poet donates prize as reminder of award namesake's legacy". CBC News, October 21, 2008.
  2. 1 2 "Seminal achievement includes local writers". Xtra Ottawa , April 5, 2007.