Victor Coleman
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Victor Coleman | |
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| Born | November 9, 1944 Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards | Harbourfront Festival Prize (2000) [1] |
Victor Coleman (born September 9, 1944) is a Canadian poet.
Biography
[edit]Born in Toronto, Coleman was the first editor at Coach House Books from 1966 until 1975. After his tenure in publishing, he managed the multidisciplinary art centre, A Space in Toronto for four years. He has also taught film studies and creative writing at Queen's University and creative writing at York University.[2]
His sister, Elizabeth Amer, served two terms on Toronto City Council in the 1980s and 1990s, and has been a prominent advocate for the housing rights of residents of the Toronto Islands.[3]
Bibliography
[edit]- Old Friends' Ghosts: Poems 1963-68 (1970)
- Terrific at Both Ends (1978)
- Captions for the Deaf (1979)
- From the Dark Wood (1985)
- Corrections (1985)
- Lapsed WASP (1994)
- The Exchange: Poems 1984-95 (1999)
- LETTER DROP (2000)
- Honeymoon Suite/ Letter Drop (2001)
- MI SING (2004)
- Icon Tact (2006)
- Driven To Our Knees (2008)
- Mal Arme: Letter to Drop III (2008)
- The Occasional Troubadour (2010)
- O - Three Lectures and a Postscript (2010)
- IvH: An Alphamath Serial (2012)
- Miserable Singers: Book One (2014)
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ "Literary stars to light up Harbourfront". The Globe and Mail. 21 September 2000.
- ^ Victor Coleman at The Canadian Encyclopedia, accessed September 1, 2019
- ^ John Bentley Mays, "Sculpture dedicated to artists' 'den mother'". The Globe and Mail, October 30, 1985.
External links
[edit]- [1] (The Toronto New School of Writing)
- Coleman, The Canadian Encyclopedia
- [2] (Reading of The Occasional Troubadour)
- Records of Victor Coleman are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
- Archives of Victor Coleman (Victor Coleman fonds, R11721) are held at Library and Archives Canada
