Sleepwalking Among the Camels
New and Selected Poems
- Publisher
- J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1998
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919754584
- Publish Date
- Jan 1998
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
Tom Konyves Sleepwalking Among the Camels includes compelling selections from his groundbreaking books No Parking (1978), Poetry in Performance (1982), and Ex Perimeter (1988) as well as a section of exciting new work. A must read for lovers of Canadian Surrealism.
About the authors
Tom Konyves was born in Budapest, Hungary. He is a video producer currently living in BC. Based in Montreal until 1983, his poetry has evolved from his mid–seventies association with the Vehicule Poets to the reflective and almost delicate work created in the later Vancouver poems. He coined the term "videopoetry" to describe his mulitmedia work. Hi works include Poetry in Performance (The Muses’ Company), Ex Perimeter, and Sleepwalking Among the Camels: New and Selected Poems (The Muses’ Company). Stephen Morrissey was born in Montreal. He has edited two library magzines, What Is, a journal of experimental poetry, and The Montreal Journal of Poetics. He is founding editor of Coracle Press and publishes on–line poetry chapbooks. He teaches English and Humanities at Champlain College, Montreal. His works include The Trees of Unknowing, Family Album, and Mapping the Soul: Selected Poems, 1978–1998 (The Muses’ Company).
Ken Norris was born in New York City in 1951. He emigrated to Canada in the early seventies, where he quickly became one of the infamous Vehicule Poets, essential in helping to develop and maintain a particular style of Anglo-poetry in Montreal.
One of Canada’s most prolific poets, Ken Norris has always given his readers subtly capricious and edgy poetry that reveals unanticipated possibilities and explores new horizons. He is the author of two dozen books and chapbooks of poetry, and is the editor of eight anthologies of poetry and poetics. His work has been widely anthologized in Canada and throughout the English-speaking world, as well as published in translation in France, Belgium, Israel and China. Quebec poet Pierre Des Ruisseaux has translated two of his books into French, La route des limbes (Limbo Road, Écrits des Forges) and Hotel Montréal (Éditions du Noroît).
Norris teaches Canadian literature and creative writing at the University of Maine. He divides his time between Canada, the United States and Asia.
