About the Authors
Richard Greeneteaches Creative Writing and British Literature at the University of Toronto. His most recent biography Edith Sitwell: Avant-garde Poet, English Genius (2011) was widely acclaimed, and he has published three collections of poetry, including Boxing the Compass (2010), which won the Governer General's Award for Poetry. He lives in Cobourg, Ontario.
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matt robinson 鴅4), a native of Halifax, NS, now lives in Fredericton, NB. Winner of the 1999 Petra Kenney Poetry Competition and the 2001 Alfred G. Bailey Prize, he is a PhD student at the University of New Brunswick. His first collection of poetry, A Ruckus of Awkward Stacking 鴈0), was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award and the ReLit Award for Poetry. He is on the editorial board of The Fiddlehead.
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Peter Sanger has published numerous books of poetry, including Aiken Drum, which was shortlisted for the Atlantic
Poetry Prize, John Stokes’ Horse, and Arborealis, a collaboration with the photographer Thaddeus
Holownia. His recent prose projects include, The Stone Canoe: Two Lost Mi’kmaq Texts (with Elizabeth Paul),
White Salt Mountain: Words in Time, and Spar: Words in Place. He has also published an extensive study of
the life and poetry of Richard Outram, Through Darkling Air. He lives in South Maitland, Nova Scotia.
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Elisabeth Harvor 鴁6), recipient of the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in Literary Arts 鴈0), grew up in the Kennebecasis Valley, NB. Let Me Be the One 鴇6), one of three collections of stories, was a finalist for the Governor Generals Award for Fiction. Her first collection of poetry, Fortress of Chairs 鴇2), won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and she has won First Prize in the League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Competition and The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize. Harvor has published a novel, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart 鴈2).
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Andrew Steeves, of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, is the co-publisher of The Gaspereau Review and a partner in Gaspereau Press. Poems from Cutting the Devil's Throat have appeared in literary journals including The Antigonish Review, Queen's Quarterly, The Fiddlehead, and Canadian Literature.
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Harry Thurston is the author of several collections of poetry and twelve nonfiction books, including Tidal Life: A Natural History of the Bay of Fundy, winner of three non-fiction prizes in the Atlantic region; The Nature of Shorebirds: Nomads of the Wetlands; and A Place Between the Tides: A Naturalist's Reflections on the Salt Marsh, which received the 2005 Sigrid Olson Nature Writing Award in the United States and was shortlisted for the 2005 BC Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. He has also written for such magazines as Audubon, Canadian Geographic, and National Geographic. Thurston lives in Nova Scotia.
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Born in Toronto in 1938, David Helwig attended the University of Toronto and the University of Liverpool. His first stories were published in Canadian Forum and The Montrealer while he was still an undergraduate. He then went on to teach at Queen's University. He worked in summer stock with the Straw Hat Players, mostly as a business manager and technician, rubbing elbows with such actors as Gordon Pinsent, Jackie Burroughs and Timothy Findley.
While at Queen's University, Helwig did some informal teaching in Collins Bay Penitentiary and subsequently wrote A Book About Billie with a former inmate.
Helwig has also served as literary manager of CBC Television Drama, working under John Hirsch, supervising the work of story editors and the department's relations with writers.
In 1980, he gave up teaching and became a full-time freelance writer. He has done a wide range of writing -- fiction, poetry, essays -- authoring more than twenty books. Helwig is also the founder and long-time editor of the Best Canadian Stories annual. In 2009 he was named as a member of the Order of Canada.
David Helwig lives in the village of Eldon on Prince Edward Island, where he is the third Poet Laureate. He indulges his passion for vocal music by singing with choirs in Montreal, Kingston, and Charlottetown. He has appeared as bass soloist in Handel's Messiah, Bach's St Matthew Passion and Mozart's Requiem.
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George Elliott Clarke is a Canadian poet and playwright. Born in Windsor Plains, Nova Scotia, he has spent much of his career writing about the black communities of Nova Scotia and served for a time in the African-American Studies department at Duke University. He earned a BA Honours degree in English from the University of Waterloo (1984), an MA in English from Dalhousie University (1989), and a PhD in English from Queenâ??s University (1993). In addition, he has received honorary degrees from Dalhousie University (LLD), the University of New Brunswick (LittD), the University of Alberta (LittD), and the University of Waterloo (LittD). He is currently professor of English at the University of Toronto.
In 2001 he won the Governor Generalâ??s Literary Award for poetry for his book Execution Poems. Clarkeâ??s work largely explores and chronicles the experience and history of the black Canadian community of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, creating a cultural geography that Clarke often refers to as Africadia. Clarkeâ??s Whylah Falls was one of the selected books in the 2002 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by Nalo Hopkinson.
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Elizabeth Bishop 鳿1-1979) was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her father died shortly after her birth, and she spent her early childhood in Great Village, NS, with her mother’s extended family. After her mother’s permanent hospitalization, she was taken back to the United States by her paternal grandparents. Throughout her life she made return trips to Nova Scotia and wrote extensively about the Maritimes in both her poetry and prose. Bishop’s books won various prizes, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics’ Circle Award. Bishop was the consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress for 1949-50.
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John Steffler 鴂7) grew up near Thornhill, ON. In 1975, he began teaching at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College in Corner Brook, NL. His novel The Afterlife of George Cartwright won the Smithbooks/Books in Canada First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Governor Generals Award and the Commonwealth Prize for best first book in 1992. His other awards include the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Artist of the Year Award, and the Atlantic Poetry Prize for his most recent collection, That Night We Were Ravenous.
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Laurence Hutchman was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1948. He finished his BA in English in The University of Western Ontario in 1972, received his MA at Concordia University in 1979; and his Ph.D at the Université de Montréal in 1988. He has taught at a number of universities including Concordia University, the University of Alberta, The University of Western Ontario, and The Université de Moncton where he is currently a Full Professor. He was President of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick from 2000-2002. He has given many readings and workshops in Canada, the United States, China, Ireland and Bulgaria. Hutchman lives with his wife, Mary, in Edmundston. They have two children. His awards include: the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English-language Literary Arts, 2007; snd First prize, poetry category, Writers' Federation of New Brunswick, Literary Competition, 200
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John MacKenzie was born on Prince Edward Island in 1968. His first book, Sledgehammer and Other Poems, was shortlisted for the
Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Book of Poetry in Canada, and received rave reviews. He is also the author of Shaken by Physics, a collection of poems that fuses science and mythmaking. He lives in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.
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John Smith 鴀7) taught high school English in Toronto, and earned an MA in English at the University of Toronto. In 1967, he moved to Prince Edward Island, where he was a professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island until his retirement in 1992. Smiths new manuscript is a collection of sonnets called Fireflies in the Magnolia Grove.
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Alden Nowlan 鴁3-1983) was born in Windsor, NS. Primarily self-educated, Nowlan worked as a newspaperman, and published poetry, plays, short stories, and novels. Writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick from 1969 to 1983, he was famous for the gatherings at his home, known as Windsor Castle. His awards include the Governor Generals Award for Poetry in 1967 for Bread, Wine and Salt and a Guggenheim Fellowship 鴄7-68). Alden Nowlan: Selected Poems wa published in 1996. The literary award for excellence for the province of New Brunswick is named in his honour. The annual Alden Nowlan Literary Festival in Fredericton honours his contribution to Canadian literature.
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Geoffrey Cook was born in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and currently teaches in the English Department of John Abbott College in Montreal. His poems have appeared widely in such journals as The Antigonish Review, Descant, Matrix and Pottersfield Portfolio, and in the anthologies of Atlantic Canadian poetry, Landmarks (2001) and Coastlines (2002).
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It's Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems is Jeanette Lynes` fourth collection of poetry. Her previous collections are Left Fields (Wolsak and Wynn, 2003, shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award), The Aging Cheerleader’s Alphabet (Mansfield Press, 2003), and A Woman Alone on the Atikokan Highway (Wolsak and Wynn, 1999). Her awards include the Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, the Bliss Carman Award, and first prize in the Grain Postcard Story Competition. She has been a visiting artist / writer-in-residence at Queen’s University, Northern Lights College in Dawson Creek, and the Saskatoon Public Library, as well as a faculty member of Francis Xavier University and the Sage Hill Writing Experience. She is currently co-editor of The Antigonish Review.Jeanette Lynes grew up on a farm in Alice Munro country while "Son of a Preacher Man" played on transistor radios everywhere.
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Wendy McGrath’s poetry has been published in CV2, Prism international, NeWest Review, Tessera, Room of One’s Own, Orbis, and Grain. Her verse has been broadcast on CBC Radio and her work has appeared in several anthologies. Previously she published Go Van Gogh, a chapbook of her poetry. In 1998 she received the James Patrick Folinsbee Prize from the University of Alberta’s Department of English. She lives in Edmonton, AB. Common Place Ecstasies (Beach Holme, 2000) is her first book of collected poetry.
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Michael Crummey is the author of four books of poetry, and a book of short stories, Flesh and Blood. His first novel, River Thieves, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, his second, The Wreckage, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. His most recent novel, the bestselling Galore, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. Under the Keel is his first collection in a decade. He lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
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Alan R. Wilson has an undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of New Brunswick, and a graduate degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. He has had several jobs, the most memorable as a fire hydrant painter, an experience immortalized in the CBC television drama 106 Fire Hydrants. For reasons best known to himself, he once wrote a set of 100 poems about the numbers from 1 to 100 that became his second book, Counting to 100. His most recent book, Sky Atlas (2008), is a collection of 88 sonnets - one for each constellation.
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Brent MacLaines teaching career has taken him to universities in Vancouver, Edmonton, and Singapore. Since 1991, he has been a professor of English at the University of Prince Edward Island, where he has received the prestigious 3M Award for excellence in teaching. MacLaine is the author of one previous collection of poetry, the highly acclaimed Wind and Root 鴈0, Vehicule Press). His poems have also appeared in numerous literary journals, including The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, The Windsor Review, Matrix and The Cormorant, and in anthologies such as Landmarks: An Anthology of New Atlantic Poetry of the Land and Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada. MacLaines ancestors came to Rice Point, Prince Edward Island, in 1838. Today he lives on a corner of the family farm there, overlooking the Northumberland Strait.
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Ross Leckie was born in Lachine, Quebec, and has lived in Montreal, Toronto and Prince George. He is currently Director of Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Leckie’s work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including Landmarks (2001) and Why I Sing the Blues (2001). He is the author of three collections of poetry: Gravity's Plumb Line (GP, 2005), The Authority of Roses (1997) and A Slow Light (1983).
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Robert Gibbs was born in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1930. He joined the Bliss Carman Society at the University of New Brunswick in the late 1940s where he was mentored by Don Gammon, Elizabeth Brewster, Fred Cogswell, and Alfred Bailey, the founder of The Fiddlehead magazine. Gibbs's poetry started to appear in this publication in 1949.
In his more than twenty-five years of teaching at UNB, Gibbs taught general undergraduate and Canadian literature courses and was the director of UNB's creative writing graduate program. He served as both editor and poetry editor of The Fiddlehead. Upon his retirement from UNB in 1989, he was named Professor Emeritus.
Gibbs was the keynote speaker at the first Alden Nowlan Literary Festival, and the Festival two years later paid tribute to Gibbs. His body of work was further recognized in 1998 with New Brunswick's Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English-Language Literary Arts. He has been involved with the Maritime Writers' Workshop since its inception and continues to live and write in Fredericton.
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Michael Thorpe 鴁2) grew up in England and came to Canada in 1970 after teaching abroad for several years in Turkey, Nigeria, Singapore, and Holland. Thorpe taught at Mount Allison University where, until his retirement, he was Joseph Allison Professor of English. His critical work includes Siegfried Sassoon: A Critical Study, The Poetry of Edmund Blunden, and Doris Lessing’s Africa.
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Born in Manchester, England, John Thompson 鴁8-1976) moved to the United States in 1960. For his PhD thesis, Thompson translated the poetry of the French surrealist René Char. He moved to New Brunswick in 1966 to teach English at Mount Allison University. Stilt Jack 鴅8) consists of thirty-eight ghazals and Thompsons working of the form has been a major influence on Canadian poetry. In 1991 Anansi Press published I Dream Myself Into Being: Collected Poems, and in 1995 Peter Sanger edited John Thompson: Collected Poems & Translations.
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Gordon Rodgers 鴃2) was born in Gander, NL. He completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia. He is currently a Registered Psychologist, practising on a part-time basis. His novel, A Settlement of Memory 鴇9), was shortlisted for the Writers Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Bennington Gate Award.
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Born in Long Pond, Manuels, Enos Watts was a schoolteacher and administrator for more than 20 years. An innovator in curriculum development, he served on the Newfoundland and Labrador committee of the Canada Studies Foundation, co-authoring a number of pilot texts.
His poems have appeared in such literary periodicals as The Antigonish Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Event, The Pottersfield Portfolio, and Waves. His work has been published in local, regional, national, and international anthologies, most recently in the 2-volume Irish–Newfoundland and Labrador collection. He has written book reviews and edited many manuscripts during the past 30 years.
He resides in St. John's with his wife, Golda, and daughter Jade.
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Robin McGrath was born in Newfoundland in 1949, one of ”the castor oil babies“ of the anti-confederate movement. She obtained a doctorate at the University of Western Ontario and was an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta, specializing in Inuit literature. McGrath is the author of over a dozen books, including Trouble and Desire (1995), Escaped Domestics (1998), Hoist Your Sails and Run (1999), Covenant of Salt (2005) and Livyers World (2007). She is the recipient of the Geldert Medal, the Henry Fuerstenberg Poetry Prize and the inaugural Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage and History Award. Her novel, Donovan’s Station (2002), was on the Canada/Caribbean shortlist for the Commonwealth Award. McGrath now lives in Goose Bay, Labrador, where her husband is a Provincial Court judge.
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Allan Cooper has published a dozen books of poetry, including, The Alma Elegies, Gabriel’s Wing and
Singing the Flowers Open. He has twice won the Alfred G. Bailey Award for poetry and received the Peter Gzowski
Award in 1994. He is the founder of Owls Head Press and has been the editor of the intermittently-published literary
journal Germination since 1982, when he took it over from Harry Thurston. Cooper is also a songwriter and
performer. His recent musical projects include Rosedale and Songs for a Broken World. He lives in Alma,
New Brunswick.
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Robert Moore’s previous books are So Rarely in Our Skins [2002], Museum Absconditum [2006] and Figuring Ground [Wolsak & Wynn,2009]. He has been a finalist for the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the ReLit Award. He lives in Saint John, New Brunswick.
The former director of Halifax’s Khyber Centre for the Arts, Chris Lloyd has had solo exhibitions at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia and the Art Gallery of Calgary and participates in group exhibitions across Canada. He lives in Montreal.
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Rita Joe 鴁1), a member of the Mikmaq First Nation, was born in Whycocomagh, Cape Breton Island, NS. She has won several awards, including the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia Prize and the National Aboriginal Achievement Award. An officer of the Order of Canada, she has published four books of poetry and an autobiography, Song of Rita Joe: Autobiography of a Mikmaq Poet 鴇6).
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Elizabeth Brewster 鴀2) was born in Chipman, NB. She has a PhD from the University of Indiana. Since 1972 she has been a member of the Department of English at the University of Saskatchewan and is now Professor Emieritus. She was awarded the Saskatchewan Arts Board Lifetime Award for Excellence in the Arts 鴇5). Brewster was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 1996 for Footnotes to the Book of Job 鴇5).
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Widely acknowledged to be Prince Edward Island’s greatest poet, Milton Acorn was born in Charlottetown in 1923 and died there in 1986. A significant contributor to the Canadian literary scene of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, he counted Al Purdy, Eli Mandel, Leonard Cohen, Irving Layton and Patrick Lane among his friends. The original “People’s Poet,” Acorn received a medal and cash prize from his peers at Toronto’s Grossman’s Tavern in 1970 when his selected poems, I’ve Tasted My Blood, failed to win the Governor General’s Award. He went on to receive Canada’s highest literary honour for The Island Means Minago, published in 1975. Acorn was the author of ten books of poetry, and, with Cedric Smith, he co-authored the play, The Road to Charlottetown. Although he lived in various Canadian cities between 1951 and 1981, Acorn’s finely tuned homing instincts always brought him back to the Island.
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Fred Cogswell (1917-2004) grew up in the farming community of East Centreville, New Brunswick, started teaching school when he was sixteen, and served overseas in the Canadian Army during the Second World War. After earning his BA and MA from the University of New Brunswick and his PhD from the University of Edinburgh, he became a professor of English at the University of New Brunswick. In 1954, Cogswell and others involved with the literary journal The Fiddlehead founded Fiddlehead Poetry Books. In 1957, Cogswell became the sole publisher, and by 1958 The Stunted Strong had been followed by two more volumes, one of which was Emu, Remember, by Al Purdy. One of only a few poetry publishers in Canada, Cogswell eventually published books by more than 300 poets. As well as devoting himself to poetry by others, Fred Cogswell left a large body of his own poetry. In his lifetime, he published more than 30 collections, and en route to the hospital just before he died, he and his daughter dropped his final manuscript in the mail. As well, in the 1970s, Cogswell pioneered translating French Canadian poetry into English, and in the 1980s, he began his landmark translations of Acadian poetry, often in collaboration with Jo-Anne Elder.
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Al Pittman’s writing has been featured in many publications and has been the subject of radio, television and film documentaries. He has given public readings of his work in Canada, the United States and Europe. Among his many literary awards is the Arts Council’s Lydia Campbell Award for Creative Writing in 1985, which Pittman was the first to receive, and the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry in 2001. Al Pittman was inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Hall of Honour in 1999. Al Pittman died in August of 2001 at the age of sixty-one.
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Richard Lemm 鴂6) grew up in Seattle, Washington, came to Canada in 1967, and moved to Prince Edward Island in 1983. He is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Prince Edward Island. From 1977 to 1987, he was a faculty member at the Banff School of Fine Arts, and he is a past president of the League of Canadian Poets. Prelude to the Bacchanal 鴇0) won the Canadian Authors Association Award for poetry. Lemm was literary editor at Ragweed Press for three years, and he is the author of the biography Milton Acorn: In Love and Anger 鴇9).
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Randall Maggs is the author of Timely Departures (poetry, 1994), and co-editor of two anthologies pairing Newfoundland and Canadian poems with those of Ireland. He is artistic director of Newfoundland’s March Hare festival of music and literature, and teaches literature at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University.
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Charles Bruce 鳾6-1971) was born in Port Shoreham, NS. After graduation from Mount Allison University in 1927, he joined the Canadian Press in Halifax, and was a mameber of the Song Fisherman, a group of regional poets that included Bliss Carman, Kenneth Leslie, and Charles G.D. Roberts. He worked as a war correspondent and in 1945 was appointed general superintendent of the Canadian Press in Toronto. Bruce won the 1951 Governor Generals Award for Poetry for The Mulgrave Road.
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Alfred G. Bailey 鳾5-1997) was born in Quebec City. He served as the first head of the Unviersity of New Brunswick History Department from 1938 to 1969. His literary interests led to the founding of the Bliss Carman Society in 1940 and to his co-founding of The Fiddlehead, Canada’s oldest literary magazine, in 1945. From 1965 to 1969, he served as the university’s Vice-President Academic. He published several scholarly historical and anthropological works, including The Conflict of European and Eastern Algonkian Cultures — 1969). Bailey was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1951 and an officer of the Order of Canada in 1978.
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Sue Goyette has published three collections of poetry, The True Names of Birds, Undone and
Outskirts, as well as a novel, Lures (2002). She has won the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the Atlantic
Poetry Prize, the CBC Literary Prize for Poetry, the Earle Birney Prize and the Bliss Carman Award, and been shortlisted
for the Governor General’s Literary Award, the Gerarld Lampert Memorial Award and the Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction
Prize. Goyette lives in Halifax where she teaches creative writing at Dalhousie University and works part-time at the
Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia.
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Sue Sinclair grew up in St. John146s, Newfoundland. Her extraordinary poetic powers were first recognized when she won two creative writing awards at University of New Brunswick: the Walker Prize and the Angela Ludvine Memorial Prize. Her first poetry collection, Secrets of Weather & Hope, was a finalist for the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award, and her second, Mortal Arguments, was a finalist for the Atlantic Poetry Prize. Her work appears frequently in magazines such as The Fiddlehead, Canadian Literature, Grain, The New Quarterly, and The Malahat Review, and in anthologies such as Coastlines and Breathing Fire II.
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Poet laureate of Halifax, Sue MacLeod 鴃5) grew up in Ontario, the daughter of Cape Breton parents. Her first collection of poems, The Language of Rain 鴇5), was shortlisted for the Milton Acorn Peoples Poet Award. In 2000 she won Arc magazines Poem of the Year Contest. She has two new manuscripts, Mercy Bay and Five Readings of All This Snow.
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Fraser Sutherland is a much travelled Nova Scotian who now lives in Toronto, Ontario. He has published sixteen books, including poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction in Canada and the United States. His work has appeared worldwide in magazines and anthologies in print and online, and has been translated into French, Italian, Albanian, Serbian, and Farsi. Before he became a freelance writer and editor, Sutherland reported for The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and The Wall Street Journal. He was a founding editor of Northern Journey, a columnist for Quill & Quire, and the managing editor of Books in Canada. A reviewer for The Globe and Mail and other periodicals, Sutherland has written and edited for dictionaries in three countries, and may be the only Canadian writer who is also a lexicographer.
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Lynn Davies’s remarkable debut collection, The Bridge that Carries the Road, was a finalist for both the 1999 Governor General’s Award and the Gerald Lampert Award. Her poems are frequently broadcast on CBC Radio and have appeared in magazines such as The Fiddlehead and The Malahat Review and in anthologies such as Why I Sing The Blues, An Orange From Portugal, Listening With The Ear Of The Heart, Coastlines, and New Canadian Poetry. Originally from Moncton, NB, she lived in Dartmouth, NS, for more than a decade, where she obtained a BA in Honours English from the University of King’s College. An alumnus of both the Banff Writers’ Studio and St. Peter’s College in Saskatchewan, Lynn Davies now resides near Fredericton.
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Anne Simpson is one of Canadas rising stars. Her story Dreaming Snow&148 won the Journey Prize, and her first novel, Canterbury Beach, was a finalist for the Chapters/Robertson Davies Prize and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. Her first poetry collection, Light Falls Through You, won the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Award and was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award; her second, collection, Loop, has just been published. After spending a year as writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, she has returned to her home in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
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Eric Trethewey has an international following, with four collections to his credit and publication in journals such as The Paris Review and The Atlantic Monthly. Poems in The Long Road Home have appeared in The New Republic, The Christian Science Monitor, The Canadian Forum, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead and other magazines. After working at many jobs in many places, Trethewey now teaches at Hollins College, Virginia.
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Hugh MacDonald 鴂5), who lives in Montague, PEI, is a childrens writer and co-editor of Landmarks: An Anthology of New Atlantic Canadian Poetry of the Land 鴈1). Chung Lee Loves Lobsters won the L.M. Montgomery Childrens Literature Award in 1990. He won the Atlantic Poetry Prize for Looking for Mother 鴇5).
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Born in Long Pond, Manuels, Conception Bay South, Tom Dawe has been a teacher, professor of English (Memorial Univesity), visual artist, editor, writer and poet. His work includes poetry, fiction, dramatic script, folklore and children’s literature. His is also one of the founding members of Breakwater Books Ltd. and TickleAce magazine.
Winner of many awards and honours in arts and letters, he was recently awarded honourary membership in the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador and induction into Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Hall of Honour. His work has been studied in schools and colleges around the world. Rewriting Newfoundland Mythology: The Works of Tom Dawe, a book by Martina Seifert, was published in Germany and Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2002.
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In 2007, Patrick Warner won the E.J. Pratt Poetry Prize Award for his collection, There, There. His first collection of poetry, All Manner of Misunderstanding, was nominated for the 2002 Atlantic Poetry Prize and for the 2003 Newfoundland and Labrador Book Awards. His work has been published in TickleAce, The Fiddlehead, Matrix, Signal, the Sunday Telegram (St. John's), Poetry Ireland Review, and Metre (Ireland). He lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.
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Anne Compton is a two-time winner of the Atlantic Poetry Prize and winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry for her second collection, Processional. In 2008, she was awarded the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English Language Literary Arts. She teaches at the University of New Brunswick at Saint John.
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Agnes Walsh was born in Placentia, Newfoundland. She is a poet
and a playwright. She has published two collections of poetry, In
the Old Country of My Heart (Killick Press) and Going Around With
Bachelors (Brick Books). She is the artistic director and founder for
The Tramore Theatre Troupe and in 2005 she founded the Bere
Island Theatre Troupe in Ireland.
Awards
2006 – 2 • 009 Poet Laureate of St. John’s
• Arts and Letters Award for Poetry winner
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In the spring of 2001, Douglas Lochhead received the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English-language Literary Arts from the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, a Member of the Order of Canada, the recipient of honorary doctorates from several universities, Professor Emeritus at Mount Allison University, Senior Fellow and Founding Librarian at Massey College, University of Toronto, and a life member of the League of Canadian Poets. After beginning his career as an advertising copywriter, he became a librarian, a professor of English, a specialist in typography and fine hand printing, and a bibliographer, scholar, and editor — indeed, he has characterized himself as “an unrepentant generalist.” At Mount Allison University, he was a founder and the director of the Centre for Canadian Studies, and he held the Edgar and Dorothy Davidson Chair in Canadian Studies.
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M. Travis Lane is Honorary President of the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick and a Life Member of the League of Canadian Poets. She has published eleven books of poetry (including the forthcoming The Safety Net) and received numerous awards, including the Bliss Carman Poetry Prize, the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English Language Literary Arts.
Jeanette Lynes is an associate professor of English at St. Francis Xavier University and co-editor of The Antigonish Review. She is the author of three collections of poetry; her fourth poetry book and a novel are forthcoming in 2008.
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Tammy Armstrong grew up in St. Stephen, New Brunswick and lived in Vancouver, BC for several years, where she earned a BA and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. She currently lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Armstrong has two books of poetry published with Anvil Press: Unravel and Bogman's Music (a Governor General's Literary Award nominee). Her poems have appeared in the following publications: The Antigonish Review, Event, The Fiddlehead, Grain, The Malahat Review, Pottersfield Portfolio, Prairie Fire, Room of One's Own, subTerrain, TickleAce, and Zygote. “A Proper Burial for Song Birds” placed third in the League of Canadian Poets' National Poetry Contest, Vintage 2000. “If In a Marriage to a Car Salesman” and “Clam Bake 1974” were performed on International Women's Day 2000 at the National Art Gallery.
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Brian Bartlett’s books of poetry include
Granite Erratics, The Afterlife of Trees, Travels of the Watch, and
Wanting the Day: Selected Poems, which was published in both Britain and Canada and won the 2004 Atlantic Poetry Prize. He also edited
Don McKay: Essays on His Works and is working on a collection of prose,
Living with Poetry. He teaches at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.
Don Domanski was born and raised on Cape Breton Island and now lives in Halifax. He has published eight books of poetry, two of which were short-listed for the Governor General’s Award, and in 1999 he won the Canadian Literary Award for Poetry. Published and reviewed internationally, his work has been translated into Czech, Portuguese, and Spanish.
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Prince Edward Islander Thomas OGrady 鴃6) is Director of Irish Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He was educated at the University of Prince Edward Island, University College Dublin, and the University of Notre Dame.
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As a high-school student, Brian Bartlett was invited to join the Ice House Gang, so-called because they met in the University of New Brunswick's historic Ice House every Tuesday night to read their poetry and hone their talents. Amazed and delighted by Bartlett's gift for words, Robert Gibbs, Bill Bauer, Kent Thompson, and Alden Nowlan inspired him to become the accomplished artist he is today. He published his chapbook Finches for the Wake when he was only 18 years old. The next year, Brother's Insomnia was published as a New Brunswick Chapbook. Since this apprenticeship period, Bartlett has published six highly acclaimed collections: Cattail Week, Planet Harbor, Underwater Carpentry, Granite Erratics, The Afterlife of Trees, and Wanting the Day. His poetry has won Two Malahat Review Long Poem prizes, a fellowship to the Hawthornden Castle International Writers' Retreat in Scotland, and first prize in the 2000 Petra Kenney poetry awards. A talented writer of prose, Bartlett's essays, stories and reviews have appeared in Books in Canada, Canadian Literature, The Fiddlehead, and Brick, as well as Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Anthology. A native of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Bartlett spent 15 years in Montreal, studying at McGill and teaching at Concordia. Today, he teaches creative writing and literature at Saint Mary's University in Halifax.
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RM Vaughan is a Toronto-based writer and video artist originally from New Brunswick. His books include the poetry collections A Selection of Dazzling Scarves and Invisible to Predators, the novel A Quilted Heart, the play Camera, Woman and the novel Spells (ECW). Vaughan was the 1994-95 Playwright in Residence at Buddies in Bad Times, and he writes about art and culture for a wide range of publications.
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Joseph Sherman. The author of four collections of poetry, Joseph Sherman has been the editor of ARTSatlantic, Charlottetown, since 1979. A version of A Jewish Childs Christmas in Cape Breton was part of a longer memoir, written in 1970, when Sherman was a graduate student at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. In slightly different form, it was broadcast locally and regionally on CBC Radio at Christmas, 1994. It appears here by permission of the author.
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Douglas Burnet Smith is the author of ten previous volumes of poetry. His most recent book is The Killed (Wolsak & Wynn). He has been nominated for the Governor General's Award and has won numerous prizes for his writing, including The Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize. Currently he divides his time between Paris, France, and Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where he teaches at St. Francis Xavier University.
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Born in Luxembourg, Liliane Welch ޑ) has lived for thirty-five years in Sackville, NB. A professor of French Studies at Mount Allison University, she is the co-author of Emergence: Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud 鴅3) and Address: Rimbaud Mallarmé Butor 鴅9). Welch is also the author of two collections of essays, Seismographs 鴆8) and Fescoes 鴇8). She is the recepient of the Bressani Prize for Life in Another Language 鴇2) and th Writerss Federation of New Brunswick Alfred G. Bailey Prize 鴆6). In 1998 she was elected to the Institut Grand-Ducal, Luxembourg.
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Kay Smith 鳿1) was born in Saint John, NB. A graduate in Drama from Columbia University, she taught English at Saint John Vocational High School. For three decades, she played a key role in the development of drama in Saint John. Associated with the Montreal poets of the 1950s, Smith’s first collection, Footnote to the Lord’s Prayer 鴃1), was published by First Statement Press and her selected poems, The Bright Particulars, was published by Ragweed in 1987.
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CAROLE LANGILLE is the author of three books of poetry and has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize. Six poems from her third book, Late in a Slow Time, were put to music by the composer Chan Ka Nin and performed at Sound Symposium and the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival, and will be recorded on Duo Concertante’s next CD. Her children’s book, Where the Wind Sleeps, was awarded “Our Choice” by Canadian Children's Book Centre. Langille has given readings in New York, Athens and Prague; and workshops in Delhi and Kashmir. Her short story collection, When I Always Wanted Something, was published in 2008. Langille lives in Black Point, Nova Scotia.
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Mary Daltpon is the author of five books of poetry including Merrybegot winner of the 2005 E.J. Pratt Poetry Award. Her new collection Hooking was published Spring 2013. She is a Professor of English at Memorial University, St. John’s Newfoundland.
Sean O’Brien is a UK poet, critic, broadcaster, anthologist and editor. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. His poetry collection November was shortlisted for the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize and the 2012 International Griffin Poetry Prize.
Chase Twichell is the winner of the prestigious Kingsley and Kate Tufts Poetry Award (2011) and the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award (1997). She has received numerous fellowships for her seven books of poetry.
Niyi Osundare Osundare is a Nigerian poet, playwright, essayist and scholar. He has authored 18 books of poetry. His many prizes include the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. He is currently Distinguished Professor of English at the University of New Orleans.
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