John Terpstra

John Terpstra has published many books and chapbooks of poetry, the most recent of which, Disarmament, was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award in 2004. A retrospective of his work, Two or Three Guitars: Selected Poems, was published in 2006. Terpstra has also published three prose projects: Falling Into Place, a creative investigation of a giant glacial sandbar which lies beneath one of Canada’s busiest transportation corridors; The Boys, or, Waiting for the Electrician’s Daughter, the story of his wife’s three brothers, who lived with muscular dystrophy until their early twenties; and Skin Boat: Acts of Faith and Other Navigations, a frank reflection on faith and church in a secular era. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

Books by John Terpstra

Call Me Home

Daylighting Chedoke

Mischief

The House with the Parapet Wall

This Orchard Sound

Brilliant Falls

Falling Into Place

Naked Trees

The Church Not Made with Hands

Skin Boat

Two or Three Guitars

Brendan Luck

The Boys, or, Waiting for the Electrician’s Daughter

An International Christmas

Disarmament

Falling Into Place