Brian Henderson (poet)
Brian Henderson (born 1948) is a Canadian writer, poet, and photographer, whose book of poetry Nerve Language was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2007.
Biography[edit]
Henderson, born in 1948 in Kitchener, Ontario, has a PhD in Canadian Literature from York University.[1] Henderson has worked as a university instructor, a phone jack installer, a traffic counter, a shipper/receiver, and a rock drummer.
He is the author of thirteen collections of poetry including The Alphamiricon, a deck of visual poem-cards. His work has been published in many small magazines. In the 1970s Henderson was a founding editor of RUNE.
He was the director of Wilfrid Laurier University Press from 2005-2016.
Literary activities[edit]
His poetry and literary criticism has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Antigonish Review, Canadian Forum, Canadian Literature, CVII, Descant, ECW, The Fiddlehead, Prism, Quarry, Rampike, RUNE (of which he was a founding editor for its decade of existence), Scrivener, Writ and many other literary journals since 1974.[2]
Awards[edit]
Nominations[edit]
- Governor General's Award for Poetry, 2007, finalist (for Nerve Language)
- Canadian Author’s Association Award for Poetry, 2012, finalist (for Sharawadji)
- Raymond Souster Award, 2020, longlisted
Published works[edit]
Books:[3]
- Unfinishing, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022[4]
- Unidentified Poetic Object, Brick Books, 2019[5][6][7]
- [OR], Talonbooks, 2014
- Sharawadji, Brick Books, 2011[8]
- Nerve Language, Pedlar Press, 2007
- Light in Dark Objects, Ekstasis Editions, 2000
- Year Zero, Brick Books, 1995
- Smoking Mirror, ECW Press, 1990
- The Alphamiricon, Underwhich Editions, 1987; available on Ubu.com/visual poetry[9]
- Migration of Light, General Publishing, 1983
- The Veridical Book of the Silent Planet, Aya Press, 1978
- Paracelsus, Porcupine's Quill, 1977
- The Expanding Room, Black Moss Press, 1977
Anthologies:[10]
- W.H. New, ed., Inside the Poem, Oxford University Press, 1992
- Robert Allen, ed., The Lyric Paragraph, D.C. Books, 1987
- Leslie Nutting, ed., The Toronto Collection, Manoeuvers Press, 1984
- Ken Norris, Twenty Canadian Poets of the Eighties, Anansi, 1984
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Canadian Poetry Online | University of Toronto Libraries | Brian Henderson". canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ^ "About | Brian Henderson". Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ^ "About | Brian Henderson". Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ^ Henderson, Brian (2022-04-15). Unfinishing. McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 978-0-2280-1149-1.
- ^ "Unidentified Poetic Object". Quill and Quire. 2019-07-11. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ^ Whiteman, Bruce (2019-05-16). "Poetry that does for science what the Modernists did for cultural history". The Toronto Star. ISSN 0319-0781. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ^ Trainor, Kim (2020-09-12). "Like the Codex Seraphinianus: Unidentified Poetic Object by Brian Henderson". Arc Poetry. Archived from the original on 2020-09-13. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ^ "On Writing, with Brian Henderson". Open Book Toronto. Archived from the original on 20 March 2012.
- ^ "UbuWeb Visual Poetry: Brian Henderson". www.ubu.com. Retrieved 2021-12-14.
- ^ "About | Brian Henderson". Retrieved 2021-12-14.
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