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Grain (magazine)
''Grain'' is a Canadian literary magazine featuring poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, and artwork. It is published quarterly by the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild and is based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. History ''Grain'' published its first issue in June 1973, a gestetner edition with stapled, taped bindings, and with cover art on a card-stock cover by a then new artist Joe Fafard. The first edition, edited by Ken Mitchell, Anne Szumigalski, and Caroline Heath included writings by Robert Kroetsch, George Bowering, Robert Currie, and John V. Hicks, and cost $1.00. A subscription cost $2 a year, or $5 for three years. This was the first of a series of semi-annual issues. In 1976, Grain began publishing three issues a year, and then in 1981, moved to its present quarterly - four issues a year - state. Over the years it has published many prominent poets and authors from Canada and abroad. Overall, approximately 3,000 pieces of writing and over 500 art images have been published. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian English
Canadian English (CanE, CE, en-CA) encompasses the varieties of English native to Canada. According to the 2016 census, English was the first language of 19.4 million Canadians or 58.1% of the total population; the remainder spoke French (20.8%) or other languages (21.1%). In Quebec, 7.5% of the population are anglophone, as most of Quebec's residents are native speakers of Quebec French. Phonologically, Canadian and American English are classified together as North American English, emphasizing the fact that most cannot distinguish the typical accents of the two countries by sound alone. While Canadian English tends to be closer to American English in most regards,Labov, p. 222. it does possess elements from British English and some uniquely Canadian characteristics.Dollinger, Stefan (2008). "New-Dialect Formation in Canada". Amsterdam: Benjamins, . p. 25. The precise influence of American English, British English and other sources on Canadian English varieties has been t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeramy Dodds
Jeramy Dodds (born 4 December 1974 in Ajax, Ontario) is a Canadian poet. Born in Ajax, Ontario, Dodds grew up in Orono, Ontario. He studied English literature and anthropology at Trent University, medieval Icelandic studies at The University of Iceland, and has worked as a research archaeologist in Canada. He was a poetry editor at Coach House Books until January 2018. He received the 2006 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award and won the 2007 CBC Literary Award in poetry. His debut poetry collection, ''Crabwise to the Hounds'' (Coach House Books, 2008), received the 2009 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and was shortlisted for both the 2009 Gerald Lampert Award and the 2009 Griffin Poetry Prize.Mark Medley"Lines that lingered" ''National Post The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in central and western Canada. The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network and is published Mondays through Saturdays, wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Zwicky
Janine Louise Zwicky (born 10 May 1955) is a Canadian philosopher, poet, essayist, and musician. She was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2022. Life and career Zwicky received her BA from the University of Calgary and earned her PhD at the University of Toronto in 1981 where her studies focussed on the philosophy of logic and science. She subsequently taught philosophy at Princeton University; philosophy and interdisciplinary humanities at the University of Waterloo; philosophy at the University of Western Ontario; philosophy, English, and creative writing at the University of New Brunswick; and philosophy at the University of Alberta. Zwicky is Professor Emerita in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Victoria, where she taught both philosophy and interdisciplinary humanities courses from 1996 until 2009. She has served as a faculty member at the Banff Centre Writing Studio, has conducted numerous writing workshops, and served as an editor for Brick Books from 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Vanderhaeghe
Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe (born April 5, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novel trilogy, ''The Englishman's Boy'', '' The Last Crossing'', and ''A Good Man'' set in the 19th-century American and Canadian West. Vanderhaeghe has won three Governor General's Awards for his fiction, one for his short story collection '' Man Descending'' in 1982, the second for his novel ''The Englishman's Boy'' in 1996, and the third for his short story collection ''Daddy Lenin and Other Stories'' in 2015. Life and career Guy Vanderhaeghe was born on April 5, 1951 in Esterhazy, a mining town in southeastern Saskatchewan. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree with great distinction in 1971, High Honours in History in 1972 and Master of Arts in History in 1975, all from the University of Saskatchewan. In 1978 he received his Bachelor of Education with great distinction from the University of Regina. In 1973 he was Research Officer, Institute for Northe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moez Surani
Moez Surani (born April 10, 1979) is a Canadian poet and artist. He is the author of the poetry collections ''Reticent Bodies'' and ''Floating Life'', and the booklength poem ''عملية Operación Opération Operation 行动 Операция''. His fourth book is titled ''Are the Rivers in Your Poems Real''. Surani is the nephew of developmental biologist Azim Surani. Career Poems from Surani's debut collection, ''Reticent Bodies'', began appearing in 2001, when Canadian poet Todd Swift published the anthology ''100 Poets Against the War.'' Surani's "Realpolitik," initially published under the pseudonym "d.m.," was selected as part of this critique of the Iraq War. In 2001, he won the Kingston Literary Award and Queen's University's richest writing prize, the Helen Richards Campbell Memorial Scholarship for excellence in creative writing. From 2002 to 2008, his poetry was published in Canada and abroad. ''The Dublin Quarterly'' selected his poem "Alley Dolle" as their choice f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Solie
Karen Solie (born 1966) is a Canadian poet. Born in Moose Jaw, Solie grew up on the family farm in southwest Saskatchewan. Over the years, she has worked as a farm hand, an espresso jerk, a groundskeeper, a newspaper reporter/photographer, an academic research assistant, and an English teacher. She currently resides in Toronto, Ontario. Karen Solie's poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous North American journals, including '' Geist'', '' The Fiddlehead'', ''The Malahat Review'', ''Event'', ''Indiana Review'', '' Arc Poetry Magazine'', ''Other Voices'', and ''The Capilano Review''. She has also had her poetry published in the anthologies ''Breathing Fire'' (1995), ''Hammer and Tongs'' (1999), and ''Introductions: Poets Present Poets'' (2001). One of her short stories was featured in ''The Journey Prize Anthology 12'' (2000). Solie's poem "Prayers for the Sick" won second place in ''Arc'' Magazine's 2008 Poem of the Year Contest. Solie was one of the judges for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Simpson
Anne Simpson is a Canadian poet, novelist, artist and essayist. She was a recipient of the Griffin Poetry Prize. Biography Simpson received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Queen's University, and graduated in Fine Arts from OCAD University (formerly the Ontario College of Art). Subsequently, she worked as a CUSO volunteer English teacher for two years in Nigeria. She is an adjunct professor at St. Francis Xavier University, where she established the Writing Centre. Simpson was the co-winner of the 1997 Journey Prize, awarded for her short story ''Dreaming Snow''. Her second collection of poetry, ''Loop'' (McClelland & Stewart, 2003), was the winner of the 2004 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize. ''Loop'' contains many poems composed in sequences, including, notably, a poetic demonstration of a Möbius strip. Her other poetry collections include ''Light Falls Through You'' (McClelland & Stewart, 2000), winner of the Gerald Lampert Award and the Atlantic Poetry Prize, ''Quick'' (Mc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Purdy
Alfred Wellington Purdy (December 30, 1918 – April 21, 2000) was a 20th-century Canadian free verse poet. Purdy's writing career spanned fifty-six years. His works include thirty-nine books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence, in addition to his posthumous works. He has been called the nation's "unofficial poet laureate" and "a national poet in a way that you only find occasionally in the life of a culture." Biography Born in Wooler, Ontario, Purdy went to Albert College in Belleville, Ontario, and Trenton Collegiate Institute in Trenton, Ontario. He dropped out of school at 17 and rode the rails west to Vancouver. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. Following the war, he worked in various jobs until the 1960s, when he was finally able to support himself as a writer, editor and poet.University of Toronto LibraryAl Purdy, Biography Canadian Poets Series. Retrieved on: April 19, 2008. In 1957, Purdy and his w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don McKay (poet)
Don McKay (born 1942) is a Canadian poet, editor, and educator. Life McKay was born in Owen Sound, Ontario and raised in Cornwall. McKay was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned his PhD in 1971, with a dissertation on the poetry of Dylan Thomas. He taught creative writing and English for 27 years in universities including the University of Western Ontario and the University of New Brunswick. In 2008, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. McKay has lived in southwestern Ontario, New Brunswick, Vancouver Island and Newfoundland. Poetic career McKay is the author of twelve books of poetry, including ''Birding, or Desire'' (1986), ''Apparatus'' (1997) and ''Paradoxides'' (2012). He has twice won the Governor General's Award, for ''Night Field'' (1991) and ''Another Gravity'' (2000). In June 2007, he won the Griffin Poetry Prize for ''Strike/Slip'' (2006). Beginning in 2002, he has also published five books of non-ficti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yann Martel
Yann Martel, (born 25 June 1963) is a Canadian author who wrote the Man Booker Prize–winning novel ''Life of Pi'', an international bestseller published in more than 50 territories. It has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide and spent more than a year on the bestseller lists of the ''New York Times'' and ''The Globe and Mail'', among many other best-selling lists. ''Life of Pi'' was adapted for a movie directed by Ang Lee, garnering four Oscars including Best Director and winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score. Martel is also the author of the novels ''The High Mountains of Portugal'',Knopf Canada: The High Mountains of Portugal Penguin Random House site. Retrieved 24 March 2016.Charles, Ron (21 January 2016 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Lilburn
Tim Lilburn (born 27 June 1950) is a Canadian poet and essayist. Lilburn was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He obtained a B.A. from the University of Regina, a Master's Degree in Philosophy from Gonzaga University, and his PhD from McMaster University. He is the author of several critically acclaimed collections of poetry, including ''Kill-site'', ''To the River'', ''Moosewood Sandhills'' and his latest work ''Going Home''. Successful even in the early stages of his career, Lilburn's second work, ''Tourist To Ecstasy'', was shortlisted for the Governor's General's Award but did not win. Lilburn's first glimpse of national approval came in 1995, upon receiving the Canadian Authors Association Award for his work on ''Moosewood Sandhills''. In 2002, Lilburn's ''Living in the World as if it Were Home'' became the winner of the Saskatchewan Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award and was a finalist for the Saskatoon Book Award. Eventually, Lilburn went on to win the Governor General's Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Lane (poet)
Patrick Lane (March 26, 1939 – March 7, 2019) was a Canadian poet."Patrick Lane" '''', February 10, 2008. He had written in several other genres, including essays, short stories, and was the author of the novel ''Red Dog, Red Dog''. Biography Born in , British Columbia, he attended high school in Vernon and had no further formal education.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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