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Poetry
London 2009/2010 Colleen Thibaudeau was born in 1925 in Toronto. The first lullabies she heard were from the CPR tracks and from her father reading his homework: Gautier and Flaubert. She was raised in St. Thomas, and educated at the University of Toronto, where she completed a master’s thesis on contemporary Canadian poetry. In 1951 she married poet and playwright James Reaney. Actively involved with Canadian small presses and the League of Canadian Poets since the mid 1960s, her writing began to reach a wide readership with the publication of her collection, My Granddaughters Are Combing Out Their Long Hair (Coach House, 1977). This was followed by The Martha Landscapes (Brick, 1984), The Artemesia Book (Brick, 1991), and The Patricia Album (Moonstone, 1992). Thibaudeau lives in London, Ontario.
evalyn parry is an award-winning spoken word poet, songwriter, and theatre artist based in Toronto. Passionately political, disarmingly personal and often hilarious, evalyn has toured across the country from coast to coast, performing at spoken word, poetry and storytelling festivals, as well as music festivals (including London’s own Home County Folk Festival), Pride festivals, environmental events, union halls, house concerts, universities and high schools. Her writing is included in several anthologies of queer Canadian poets and playwrights, and her work has been featured on CBC radio, television and BRAVO; she has released three critically acclaimed CDs on Borealis Records. George McWhirter is Vancouver’s first Poet Laureate. McWhirter’s Catalan Poems (Oberon, 1971) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, and Ovid in Saskatchewan, the 1998 League of Canadian Poets’ Chapbook Competition. He was editor and principal translator of José Emilio Pacheco: Selected Poems (New Directions), which won the 1987 F.R. Scott Translation Prize. His latest poetry books are The Incorrection (Oolichan Books, 2007) and The Anachronicles (Ronsdale Press, 2008), as well as a book of translation, Los poemas solares/The Solar Poems by Homero Aridjis, coming out from City Lights in San Francisco in 2009. A Professor Emeritus of the University of British Columbia, he was awarded the Killam Prize for Teaching, 1998; the first UBC Killam Award for Mentoring, 2004; and the Sam Black Award for Service to Creative and Performing Arts in 2005.
Sue Sinclair has published four books of poems, the latest of which is Breaker (Brick Books, 2008). Her first poetry collection, Secrets of Weather & Hope (Brick Books, 2001) was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award, and her second, Mortal Arguments (Brick Books, 2003), was a finalist for the Atlantic Poetry Prize. The Drunken Lovely Bird (Goose Lane, 2005) was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and winner of the American Independent Publishers Association Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in The Fiddlehead, Canadian Literature, Grain, The New Quarterly, The Malahat Review, and in anthologies such as Coastlines and Breathing Fire II. Sue is currently pursuing a PhD in philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Jacob Scheier is a Toronto born poet and journalist, currently living in New York City. His debut poetry collection, More to Keep us Warm (ECW Press), won the 2008 Governor General's Award. Scheier's poems have also appeared in several literary journals, including Descant and Rampike. He is the former head editor of Existere, York University's literary journal, and he is currently a regular contributor to the Toronto alternatively weekly, Now, and to the NYC progressive newspaper, The Indypendent. In 2005 John B. Lee was inducted as Poet Laureate of Brantford. He has also been named Honourary Life Member of The Canadian Poetry Association. A recipient of over sixty prestigious international awards for his writing, he is the only two-time recipient of the People’s Poetry Award, the 2006 winner of the inaugural Souwesto Orison Writing Award (University of Windsor), and the 2007 winner of the Winston Collins Award for Best Canadian Poem. He has well-over fifty books published to date and is the editor of seven anthologies, including two best-selling works: That Sign of Perfection: poems and stories on the game of hockey (Black Moss, 1995); and Smaller Than God: words of spiritual longing (Black Moss, 2001). His work has appeared internationally in over 500 publications, and he has read his work in nations all over the world including South Africa, France, Korea, and Cuba. He lives in Port Dover, Ontario, where he works as a full-time author. Christian Bök is the author of Crystallography (Coach House Press, 1994), a pataphysical encyclopedia nominated for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and also of Eunoia (Coach House Books, 2001), a bestselling work of experimental literature, which won the Griffin Prize for Poetic Excellence. Bök has created artificial languages for two television shows: Gene Roddenberry’s Earth: Final Conflict and Peter Benchley’s Amazon. He has also earned many accolades for his virtuoso performances of sound poetry (particularly the Ursonate by Kurt Schwitters). His conceptual artworks (which include books built out of Rubik’s cubes and Lego bricks) have appeared at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City as part of the exhibit Poetry Plastique. Bök is currently a Professor of English at the University of Calgary. Weyman Chan, a laboratory technician by trade, has written two collections of poetry, with a third due out in spring, 2010. Before a Blue Sky Moon (Frontenac House, 2002) was winner of an Alberta Book Award. This was followed by Noise From the Laundry (Talonbooks, 2008), which was a Governor General’s Award Poetry Finalist. Other awards include the Stephansson Poetry Prize and a nomination for the W.O. Mitchell Prize. Chan, whose parents immigrated to Canada from China, lives in Calgary, Alberta. When he's not writing, he's performing histological and electron microscopic tests in a windowless basement of the local healthcare system. Suzanne Buffam is the author of Past Imperfect (House of Anansi), which won the 2006 League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Award, and the chapbook Interiors (Delirium Press, 2006). Her poems have appeared in Canadian and US publications including Poetry Magazine, The Boston Review, A Public Space, Matrix, and De Maisonneuve; and the anthologies Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets (Harbour, 1996), The New Canon (Signal, 2006), and The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century (Cracked Slab, 2007). Her work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, and Slovenian. She won the CBC Canadian Literary Award for Poetry in 1998, and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Born in Montreal, she currently teaches creative writing at the University of Chicago. Heather Cadsby has published four books of poetry, most recently, Could be (Brick Books, 2009). A Tantrum of Synonyms (Wolsak and Wynn, 1997) was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award. Her work has also appeared in such journals as The Malahat Review, Grain, CV2, and in the anthology The Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2008 (Tightrope Books). She lives in Toronto and has served as a director of the Art Bar Poetry Series.
Patricia Young has published nine collections of poetry, most recently, Here Come the Moonbathers (Biblioasis 2008). Her awards include the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the Dorothy Livesay Prize, the League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Competition and the CBC Literary Competition. She has twice been nominated for the Governor General’s Award for poetry. In 2008 she won Prairie Fire’s Poetry Competition, Grain’s Prose Poem Contest and Arc’s Poem of the Year Prize. Her first collection of short fiction, Airstream (Biblioasis, 2006), won the Rooke-Metcalfe Award, was short-listed for the Butler Prize, and included on the Globe and Mail’s list of Best One Hundred Books of 2006. In 2007/08 she was the writer in residence at the University of New Brunswick. She lives in Victoria, BC.
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