Aislinn Hunter is the author of The Possible Past, Stay, Into the Early Hours, and What’s Left Us. She’s also the instigator behind the Scotland - Canada Poetry Exchange hosted by Arc and the Scottish Poetry Library.
Read Aislinn’s How Poems Work columns on Jan Zwicky, Esta Spalding, and Anne Simpson.
Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada
http://www.aislinnhunter.com
“Alison’s series of poems entitled ‘Question & Answer’ won her both the 2002 Bronwen Wallace Award for Poetry, and the 2003 National Magazine Award for Poetry. The poems went on to be the title section in her first collection (Question & Answer, Polestar 2003), short-listed for the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poetry in Canada, and for a Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award.”
Newfoundland and Ontario,
Canada
http://www.alisonpick.com/
“Blissful Times is a book (and web page) of 65 poetic ‘translations’ of one poem….”
“Sandra Alland is a writer, performer, photographer, bookseller, micropress publisher, curator and activist. Her poetry has been published and presented across Canada, the US, Mexico, Bermuda, England, Scotland and Spain.”
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.blissfultimes.ca/
Colin Morton is a poet, fiction writer, and teacher, now experimenting with video poetry (“Primiti Too Taa” with Ed Ackerman) and having a life in Ottawa. His most recent poetry collections are Coastlines of the Archipelago (Buschekbooks) and Dance, Misery (Seraphim).
“Dance, Misery dives into the crowds of history, the great “us” as we stand sometimes in awe, sometimes in fear. Facing the Unknown Soldier, the London Blitz, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Colin Morton has the rare ability to think his way through a poem, setting a series of small fires in our brains, the language not only pleasing us with its careful rhythms but igniting our spirits as well, making us realize how integral we are to the planet’s survival, to the dream of amplitude and peace.”—Barry Dempster
Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www3.sympatico.ca/cmorton/
“D.S. (Don) Martin is a Canadian whose poetry has appeared in many journals in both Canada and the US. His chapbook, So The Moon Would Not Be Swallowed, was published by Rubicon Press (Edmonton) in March 2007. This collection is about the poet’s grandparents who were missionaries to China from 1923 to 1951. He writes about poetry for Faith Today, Books & Culture, Image, and Rock & Sling, and is the Music Critic for Christian Week. His first full-length poetry collection, Poiema, will be published in 2008.”
Canada
http://www.dsmartin.ca/
“poetry, interviews, and a little self-indulgence.” Along with Alex Boyd, dani couture started the northernpoetryreview.com.
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.danicouture.wordpress.com
“Di Brandt has published numerous volumes of poetry and creative essays, including questions i asked my mother, Agnes in the sky, and Now You Care, Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries, and most recently, So this is the world & here I am in it (NeWest Writers as Critics Series X, 2006). She has received numerous honours and awards including the Gerald Lampert Award and the Canadian Authors Association National Poetry Prize. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at Brandon University.”—Arc 57
Read an excerpt of Tanis MacDonald’s Reparative Strategies: An Interview with Di Brandt from Arc 57.
Brandon,
Manitoba,
Canada
http://www.dibrandt.ca
Elisabeth Harvor’s “fiction and poetry have appeared in The Malahat Review, The New Yorker, PRISM International, The Hudson Review, Best Canadian Stories, The Best American Short Stories, and many other periodicals and anthologies…. Fortress of Chairs, her first poetry book, won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for the best first book of poetry written by a Canadian writer in 1992, and her most recent book of stories, Let Me Be the One, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award.”
Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada
www.elisabeth-harvor.com
Garry Gottfriedson is an author, educator, and rancher. Recent poetry collections include Glass Teepee (Thistledown Press, 2002), a “poetry collection that contains cryptic and and lyrical perspectives based on his Secwepemc heritage”, and Whiskey Bullets: Cowboy and Indian Heritage Poems (Ronsdale Press, 2006).
Find out more at the BC Bookworld author bank.
Kamloops,
British Columbia,
Canada
http://www.garrygottfriedson.com/
“George Murray’s three books of poetry include The Hunter (McClelland & Stewart, 2003) and The Cottage Builder’s Letter (M&S, 2001)…. Currently, George Murray is the co-editor (with Peter Darbyshire) of Bookninja.com and is working on a book of new poems and some translations.”
Canada
http://georgemurray.ca/
“Poet, novelist, essayist, reviewer, editor, teacher … Trickster, jester, performer, historian, cultural critic.” Among Rhenisch’s many offerings are MP3 samples from his CDs plus morsels from his writing workshops.
150 Mile House,
British Columbia,
Canada
http://www.haroldrhenisch.com/
“Stuart Ross is a Toronto fiction writer, poet, editor, and creative-writing instructor. He has been active in the Toronto literary scene since the mid-1970s. He sold 7,000 copies of his self-published poetry and fiction chapbooks in the streets of Toronto during the ’80s. Stuart is co-founder, with Nicholas Power, of the Toronto Small Press Book Fair, an underground literary institution since 1987…. Stuart regularly leads workhops on poetry, publishing, and memoir at This Ain’t the Rosedale Library in Toronto.”
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.hunkamooga.com/
“Ian Roy was born on the border between Ontario and Quebec. He continues to divide his time between both of these charming provinces. In his own special way. Ian is the author of two books, The Longest Winter and People Leaving. He has published poetry, fiction and non-fiction in a number of journals, magazines and newspapers.”
Canada
http://www.ianroy.ca/
“Jan Conn has written six books of poetry, most recently Jaguar Rain: the Margaret Mee poems, Brick Books, 2006. Born in Asbestos, Quebec, she received her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Toronto. She has lived in Guatemala, Venezuela, Florida, Vermont and Massachusetts, conducting research on insects that transmit pathogens.”
Canada
http://www.janconn.com/
“Jon Paul Fiorentino is a writer and editor. His most recent book of poetry is The Theory of the Loser Class (Coach House Books, 2006). He is the author of the poetry book Hello Serotonin (Coach House Books, 2004) and the humour book Asthmatica (Insomniac Press, 2005). His most recent editorial projects are the anthologies Career Suicide! Contemporary Literary Humour (DC Books, 2003) and Post-Prairie—a collaborative effort with Robert Kroetsch, (Talonbooks, 2005). He lives in Montreal where he teaches writing at Concordia University and is the Managing Editor of Matrix magazine.” See asthmatronic, his blog.
Montreal,
Quebec,
Canada
http://www.jonpaulfiorentino.com/
“Jonathan Bennett is the author of the novel After Battersea Park (Raincoast, 2001), a collection of poetry, Here is my street, this tree I planted (ECW Press, 2004), and a collection of short stories, Verandah People (Raincoast, 2003), which was runner up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award… He teaches writing at Trent university. Originally from Sydney, Australia, Jonathan now lives and writes in Peterborough, Ontario.”
Peterborough,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.jonathanbennett.com/
“K.I. Press is the author of three books of poetry: Pale Red Footprints (Pedlar Press, 2001), Spine (Gaspereau Press, 2004), and Types of Canadian Women (Gaspereau Press, 2006).”
Canada
http://www.kipress.ca
“One of Canada’s best-known and most successful younger writers, Karen Connelly is the author of seven books of best-selling nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. She has read from her work and lectured in Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia.”
Toronto,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.karenconnelly.ca
“Kim Morrissey, a Canadian writer now resident in England, is perhaps best known for two polyphonic poetry collections that re-examine and rewrite accepted cultural scripts: Batoche (1989) engages in a multivocal exploration of a decisive colonial battle against Native Americans which has since become a founding myth of the Canadian nation; Poems For Men Who Dream of Lolita (1992) invents a voice for Nabokov’s female archetype to tell her version of the story about the notorious Humbert Humbert.”
Canada
http://members.aol.com/KMorrisse/Home.htm
Lorna Crozier has “has authored 14 books of poetry, including The Garden Going on Without Us, Angels of Flesh, Angels of Silence, Inventing the Hawk, winner of the 1992 Governor-General’s Award, Everything Arrives at the Light, Apocrypha of Light, What the Living Won’t Let Go, and most recently Whetstone.”
University of Victoria, Victoria,
British Columbia,
Canada
http://www.lornacrozier.ca/
“Marilyn Bowering is an award-winning novelist, poet and playwright…. A new book of poems, Green, is forthcoming in 2007.”
“Bowering was born in Winnipeg and grew up in Victoria, BC. She has lived in the United States, Greece, Scotland, Spain and Canada, and now makes her home in Sooke, British Columbia.”
Sooke,
British Columbia,
Canada
http://www.marilynbowering.com/
“Mark Frutkin is the author of three books of poetry and six of fiction, including Atmosphere Apollinaire, which was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium and the Ottawa Book Award. He lives in Ottawa.”
Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.markfrutkin.com/
The Max Middle Sound Project has been described as “earnest avoidance of shock and awe spectacle or just plain egregious unruliness.”
Here you can find poetry recordings, some vispo, and Max Middle’s blog.
Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.maxmiddle.com/
“Michael Dennis has 13 books of poetry in and out of print, including Fade to Blue (Pulp Press), This Day Full of Promise: Poems Selected and New (Broken Jaw), and wayne gretzky in the house of the sleeping beauties (Lowlife Publishing). He makes his home in Ottawa.”—from bio in This Magazine.
Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.boneheadmusic.com/mdennis.htm
“The nth digri has performed in Canada, the Caribbean, and the United States. He founded and produced a popular urban poetry series in Ottawa, the Golden Star Lounge, and led a contingent to Chicago for the National Poetry Slam…. He most recently directed, hosted, and performed in a UNESCO event in Ottawa for World Poetry Day featuring Lillian Allen and George Elliott Clarke. His forays into slam poetry saw him become the 2004 Ottawa slam champion, and the founder of the 2004 Canadian Spoken Wordolympics, the first ever national slam poetry tournament in Canada.”
Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.geocities.com/nthdigri/index.html
The Margaret Atwood Reference Site. Snoop her desk.
Canada
http://www.owtoad.com/
“In the sixties-through-eighties, Vancouver’s Lionel Kearns produced video poems, visual poems, and poemy poems that were remarkably prescient in their relevance to contemporary digital poetics. This project presents that work by Kearns and meditates on its relation to contemporary digital poetics via putzing with Kearns’s work in interactive pieces.”
Putzing by Jim Andrews at Vispo.com.
Vancouver/Victoria,
British Columbia,
Canada
http://vispo.com/kearns
“The Official Web Site of Oni The Haitian Sensation.”
Ottawa,
Ontario,
Canada
http://www.mesooni.com/
Patrick Lane’s “poetry, short stories, criticism, and non-fiction have won many prizes over the past forty-five years, including The Governor-General’s Award for “Poems: New & Selected” in 1979 and The Canadian Authors Association Award for his “Selected Poems” in 1988…. He has appeared at literary festivals around the world and has read and published his work in many countries including England, France, the Czech Republic, Italy, China, Japan, Chile, Colombia, the Netherlands, and Russia. His poetry and fiction appear in all major Canadian anthologies of English literature.” Check out his workshops.
Victoria,
British Columbia,
Canada
http://www.patricklane.ca/
