John Pass (born 1947 in

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poet. He has lived in Canada since 1953, and was educated at the

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. He has published 21 books of poetry since 1971. His book ''Stumbling in the Bloom'' won the 2006 Governor General's Award for English poetry. His most recent book "crawlspace" (Harbour Publishing, 2011) won the Dorothy Livesay Prize (BC Best Book Award in Poetry) in 2012. Pass taught English at

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from 1975 to 2007. He lives on BC's Sunshine Coast near Sakinaw Lake with his wife, poet, essayist and novelist Theresa Kishkan
Web page titled "Meet the Writers: John Pass" at the Web site for the Festival of the Winter Arts, accessed October 6, 2007 Four of his books of poetry form a linked quartet under the overall title, "At Large": * ''The Hour's Acropolis'' (Harbour Publishing, 1991) * ''Radical Innocence'' (Harbour Publishing, 1994) * ''Water Stair''
Oolichan Books
2000) * ''Stumbling in the Bloom''
Oolichan Books
2005)

Works

* ''Taking Place'', 1971 * ''The Kenojuak Prints'', 1973 * ''AIR 18'', 1973 (ISSN 0044-6947) * ''Port of Entry'', 1975 * ''Love's Confidence'', 1976 * ''Blossom: An Accompaniment'', 1978 * ''There Go the Cars'', 1979 () * ''An Arbitrary Dictionary'', 1984 () * ''Rugosa'', 1991 () * ''The Hour's Acropolis'', 1991 in poetry, 1991 () shortlisted for the 1993 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize * ''Radical Innocence'',

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() * ''Mud Bottom'', 1996 * ''Water Stair'',

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() shortlisted for the 2000 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry and for the 2001 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize * ''nowrite.doc'', 2004 * ''Twinned Towers'', 2005 * ''Stumbling in the Bloom'', 2005 () winner of the 2006 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry * ''Self Storage'', 2011 () * ''crawlspace'', 2011 () winner of the 2012 Dorothy Livesay Prize * ''Forecast (Selected Early Poems 1970 - 1990)'', 2015 () * "This Was the River", 2019, () * "Vetrna zvonkohra" (Wind Chime) Jiri Mesic trans. 2020, protimluv, Ostrava, Czech Republic ()

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