This volume features thirty-five of Don McKay's best poems,
which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Meira
Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the
canny, quirky, thoughtful, and sometimes comic self-consciousness
the poems adumbrate. Included is McKay's afterword written
especially for this volume in which McKay reflects on his own
writing process--its relationship to the earth and to
metamorphosis.
Don McKay has published eight books of poetry. He won the
Governor General's Award in 1991 (for "Night Field") and in 2000
(for "Another Gravity"), a National Magazine Award (1991), and the
Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry in 1984 (for
"Birding, Or Desire"). Don McKay was shortlisted for the 2005
Griffin Poetry Prize for "Camber" and was the Canadian winner of
the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize for "Strike/Slip." Born in Owen
Sound, Ontario, McKay has been active as an editor, creative
writing teacher, and university instructor, as well as a poet. He
has taught at the University of Western Ontario, the University of
New Brunswick, The Banff Centre, The Sage Hill Writing Experience,
and the BC Festival of the Arts. He has served as editor and
publisher of Brick Books since 1975 and from 1991 to 1996 as editor
of "The Fiddlehead." He resides in British Columbia.
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