Stephen Scobie (born 31 December 1943) is a

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, and

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. Born in

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, Scobie relocated to Canada in 1965. He earned a PhD from the

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after which he taught at the

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and at the

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, from which he recently retired. Scobie is a founding editor of Longspoon Press, an elected member of the

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, and the recipient of the 1980

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for ''McAlmon's Chinese Opera'' (1980) and the 1986 Prix Gabrielle Roy for Canadian Criticism.

Selected bibliography

*''Babylondromat: Poems'' (1966) *''One Word Poems'' (1969) *''In the Silence of the Year'' (1971) *''The Birken Tree'' (1973) *''Stone Poems: Poems 1967-1969'' (1973) *''Air Loom'' (1974) *''The Rooms We Are: Poems 1970-1971'' (1974) *''Airwaves, Sealevel, Landlock'' (1978) *''Leonard Cohen'' (1978) *''Les toiles n'ont peur de rien'' (1979) *''McAlmon's Chinese Opera'' (1980) *''A Grand Memory for Forgetting'' (1981) *''Expecting Rain: New Poems'' (1984) *''The Ballad of Isabel Gunn'' (1987) *''Dunino'' (1989) *''Ghosts: a Glossary of the Intertext'' (1990) *''Remains'' (1990) *''Alias Bob Dylan'' (1991) *''Gospel: a Poem'' (1994) *''Taking the Gate: a Journey through Scotland'' (1996) *''Earthquakes and Explorations: Language and Painting from Cubism to Concrete Poetry'' (1997) *''And Forget my Name: a Speculative Biography of Bob Dylan'' (1999) *''The Spaces in Between: Selected Poems 1965-2001'' (2003) *''The Measure of Paris'' (2010)

References

100 Canadian Poets - Stephen Scobie

Talonbooks biography of Stephen Scobie
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