Shane Rhodes is a Canadian poet.

Life

He graduated from the

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, and currently lives in Ottawa. He is a two-time winner of the

Archibald Lampman Award The Archibald Lampman Award is an annual Canadian literary award, created by Blaine Marchand, and presented by the literary magazine '' Arc'', for the year's best work of poetry by a writer living in the National Capital Region. History The ...

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

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, honouring both Archibald Lampman and

Duncan Campbell Scott Duncan Campbell Scott (August 2, 1862 – December 19, 1947) was a Canadian civil servant and poet and prose writer. With Charles G.D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, and Archibald Lampman, he is classed as one of Canada's Confederation Poets. A career ...

, and Rhodes felt that Scott's legacy as a civil servant who was responsible for some of Canada's more controversial policy legacy on

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issues overshadowed his work as a pioneer of Canadian poetry."Poet donates prize as reminder of award namesake's legacy".

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, October 21, 2008. Rhodes identifies as bisexual."Seminal achievement includes local writers"
'' Xtra Ottawa'', April 5, 2007. His work was included in John Barton and Billeh Nickerson's 2007 anthology ''Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets''.

Awards

* Alberta Book Award for poetry, for ''The Wireless Room'' * 2003

, for ''Holding Pattern'' * 2008

, for ''The Bindery'' * The 2009 PK Page Founders Award for Poetry from the Malahat Review * Winner of the 34th National Magazine Awards for poetry (2011) * Winner of the 2018 City of Ottawa Book Award, for Dead White Me

Works

* * * Chapbook * broadside * * * *

Anthologies

* ''New Canadian Poetry''. Even Jones, ed. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2000. * * * * ''The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008''. Stephanie Bolster, ed. Tightrope Books, 2008. * ''Best Gay Poetry 2008''.

Lawrence Schimel Lawrence Schimel (born October 16, 1971) is a bilingual (Spanish/English) American writer, translator, and anthologist. His work, which frequently deals with gay and lesbian themes as well as matters of Jewish identity, often falls into the genres ...

, ed. A Midsummer Night’s Press: New York, 2008. * ''Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology.'' Melissa Tuckey, ed.

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, 2018.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rhodes, Shane Living people 20th-century Canadian poets Canadian male poets University of New Brunswick alumni Bisexual men Writers from Ottawa Canadian LGBT poets 20th-century Canadian male writers 1973 births Canadian bisexual writers