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Tightrope Books
Tightrope Books is a Canadian independent book publisher based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 2005 by Halli Villegas, Tightrope Books publishes mainly poetry and fiction, as well as non-fiction and anthologies. As a "writer-centric press," Tightrope Books involves its authors and poets in the publishing process. According to Villegas, Tightrope Books “prides itself on introducing readers to writers who are a little bit out there,” working with both new and established authors who are open to experimentation. Tightrope Books was purchased by Jim Nason in 2014. Tightrope Books is represented by the Independent Publishers Group (IPG). Annual publications Among the publications are the annual anthologies, ''Best Canadian Poetry in English'' and ''Best Canadian Essays''. For both series, the series and guest editors collaborate and choose the best poems and essays by Canadians published in the preceding year from online and print Canadian literary journals. The idea f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sadiqa De Meijer
Sadiqa de Meijer is a Canadian poet. Her debut collection, ''Leaving Howe Island'', was a nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2014 Governor General's Awards"Governor-General Literary Awards finalists unveiled" '''', October 7, 2014. and for the 2014 , and her poem "Great Aunt Unmarried" won the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Sol
Adam Sol is a Canadian-American poet. Life Adam Sol was born in New York and raised in New Fairfield, Connecticut. He graduated from Tufts University, from Indiana University with an M.F.A, and from the University of Cincinnati with a Ph.D. He lives in Toronto with his wife Rabbi Yael Splansky and their three sons. Work Sol published his first book of poems, Jonah's Promise in 2000, with MidList Press. His second collection, Crowd of Sounds, won the Trillium Prize for Poetry in 2004. Publishing his third collection, Jeremiah Ohio, in 2008. His fourth, Complicity was published by McClelland & Stewart in 2014. Next, Sol put his teaching skills to work through his popular poetry blog "How a Poem Moves." The best of this blog was later compiled into a 2019 book, recommended by CBC. Sol's most recent book is Broken Dawn Blessings, brings a personal touch to his writing. Writing from an autobiographical perspective, as a husband helping his wife through cancer. It was the 2022 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane Rhodes
Shane Rhodes is a Canadian poet. Life He graduated from the University of New Brunswick, and currently lives in Ottawa. He is a two-time winner of the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry. In 2008, when his work ''The Bindery'' won the award, Rhodes turned over half of the $1,500 prize money to the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, a First Nations health centre. At the time the award was named the Lampman-Scott Award, honouring both Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott, and Rhodes felt that Scott's legacy as a civil servant who was responsible for some of Canada's more controversial policy legacy on First Nations issues overshadowed his work as a pioneer of Canadian poetry."Poet donates prize as reminder of award namesake's legacy". CBC News, October 21, 2008. Rhodes identifies as bisexual. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Poile
Craig Poile is a Canadian poet, who won the Archibald Lampman Award in 2010 for his collection ''True Concessions''."Craig Poile winner of 2010 Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry" '' Arc Poetry'', October 30, 2010. He was also a shortlisted nominee for the in 1999 for his debut collection ''First Crack'', and for an in 2010 for ''True Concessions''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Pick
Alison Pick (born 1975) is a Canadian writer. She is most noted for her Booker Prize-nominated novel ''Far to Go'', and was a winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for most promising writer in Canada under 35. Life and career Alison Pick is the author of three novels (''The Sweet Edge'', ''Far to Go'', and ''Strangers With the Same Dream''), two poetry collections and one memoir (''Between Gods''). She was born in Toronto, Ontario and grew up in Kitchener. In 1999, she graduated from the University of Guelph with a B.A. in psychology. Pick received her MA in philosophy from Memorial University in Newfoundland. During her teenage years, Pick discovered that her father's Czech family was originally Jewish although he had been raised a Christian. Pick herself later converted to Judaism. Pick's novel ''Far to Go'' won the Canadian Jewish Book Award and was nominated for the 2011 Man Booker Prize. The novel has been optioned for film by House of Films, with a screenplay wri ... [...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] |
Keith Maillard
Keith Maillard (born 28 February 1942 in Wheeling, West Virginia) is a Canadian-American novelist, poet, and professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia. He moved to Canada in 1970 (due to his opposition to the Vietnam War) and became a Canadian citizen in 1976.William H. New, "Keith Maillard," ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada'' (University of Toronto Press, 2002), 700. Family background Maillard has French, Canadian, and American roots. His Huguenots great grandparents immigrated to Montreal from Lyon, France, in the early 1880s. His Maillard grandfather and two Montreal-born uncles continued the family tradition of glass-blowing, working for Dominion Glass in Montreal and in Redcliff, Alberta. Maillard's parents divorced when he was a baby and he never knew his father. His father, Eugene C. Maillard, avoided glassblowing work, trained as a draughtsman, and worked for twenty-five years at the Hanford Site nuclear plant in Richland, Washington. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Lista
Michael Lista (born September 1, 1983) is a Canadian poet. He is the author of ''Bloom'', a book of poems about Canadian Manhattan Project physicist Louis Slotin. He writes a monthly column on poetry for ''The National Post'' and lives in Toronto, Ontario. Career Poems from Lista's debut, ''Bloom'', first began appearing in 2007, when the art magazine ''Border Crossings'' published "Fourteen Poems from Bloom" prefaced by a lengthy editorial introduction in its November 2007 issue. Selections from Bloom then appeared in many of Canada's literary journals and magazines, including ''ARC Magazine'', ''Descant'', ''Event'', ''Maisonneuve'', ''The Malahat Review'', ''Rhythm'', and ''The Walrus''. In the summer of 2008 Canadian poet Ken Babstock selected and read some of Lista's ''Bloom'' poems as part of the Scream Literary Festival's Alumni Night. Excerpts were published in the chapbook Best Practices. Later that summer, while in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Lista received and accepted an ... [...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] |
Helen Humphreys
Helen Humphreys (born March 29, 1961) is a Canadian poet and novelist. Personal life Humphreys was born in Kingston-on-Thames, England. Her brother Martin and sister Cathy were born after the family moved to Canada. She now lives in Kingston, Ontario with her dog, Fig. When she was younger she was expelled from high school and had to attend an alternative school to finish her education. Writing career Humphreys's first novel, ''Leaving Earth'', was a ''New York Times'' Notable Book in 1998, and a winner of the City of Toronto Book Award. In describing how she became a writer, Humphreys said, "I started writing when I was young and I just kept going. I read voraciously. I sent my poems (for I was writing exclusively poems then) out to magazines, and eventually I began to get them published. My first book of poetry came out when I was 25." In a very favourable review of ''The Reinvention of Love'' in ''The Globe and Mail'', Donna Bailey Nurse wrote: "The story is set am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Guriel
Jason Guriel is a Canadian poet and critic. Works Poetry * * * * * Criticism * Awards * 2007 Frederick Bock Prize * 2009 Editors Prize For Book Reviewing, poetry References External linksGoing NegativePoetry Foundation essay by Jason GurielThe World Stands Still and Still We FlowPoetry Foundation essay by Jason GurielTuckerman's ReturnThe New Criterion ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the m ... essay by Jason Guriel Living people 21st-century Canadian poets Writers from Ontario Canadian male poets 21st-century Canadian male writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{Canada-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |