Barry Benjamin McKinnon (born 1944) is a Canadian poet. Born in

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, he taught English at the

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Bibliography

* ''The Golden Daybreak Hair''. Toronto, ON: Aliquondo Press, 1967. * ''The Carcasses of Spring''. Vancouver, BC:

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, 1971. * ''I Wanted to Say Something''. Prince George, BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1975. * ''Death of a Lyric Poet''. Prince George, BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1975. * ''Songs & Speeches''. Prince George, BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1976. * ''Sex at Thirty One''. Prince George, BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1977. * ''The The. (Fragments)''. Prince George, BC: Repository /Gorse Press, 1979. * ''The The''. Toronto, ON:

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, 1980. (Nominated for the 1981 Governor General's Award) * ''Thoughts/Sketches''. North Vancouver, BC: Tatlow/Gorse, 1985. * ''I Wanted to Say Something''. Red Deer, AB: Red Deer College Press, 1990. * ''Pulplog''. Prince George, BC: Caitlin Press, 1991. * ''Four Realities: poets from northern BC''. Prince George, BC: Caitlin Press, 1992. * ''Arrythmia''. Prince George, BC: Gorse Press, 1994. * ''The Centre''. Prince George, BC: Caitlin Press, 1995.

Awards

* bp Nichol Chap-Book Award, 2004. ''Bolivia/Peru'' * bp Nichol Chap-Book Award, 1995. ''

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Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, established in 1986, is awarded annually to the best collection of poetry by a resident of British Columbia, Canada. One of the BC and Yukon Book Prizes, the award was originally known as the B.C. Prize for Poetry. ...

, 1992. ''Pulplog'' *

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, 1981 (finalist) ''

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References

External links

Records of Barry McKinnon are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare BooksBarry McKinnon fonds (2000.6) at Northern BC Archives
1944 births Living people 20th-century Canadian poets Canadian male poets Writers from Calgary 20th-century Canadian male writers {{Canada-poet-stub