• Source: Bruce Meyer

      • Bruce Meyer (born April 23, 1957) is a Canadian poet, broadcaster, and educator. He has authored more than 64 books of poetry, short fiction, non-fiction, and literary journalism. He is a professor of Writing and Communications at Georgian College in Barrie and a Visiting Associate at Victoria College at the University of Toronto, where he has taught Poetry, Non-Fiction, and Comparative Literature.
      He has appeared on TVO’s More to Life and Big Ideas and CBC’s This Morning with Michael Enright to discuss poetry and the classics. His CBC appearances remain the broadcaster's bestselling spoken-word CD series and inspired his 2000 bestseller The Golden Thread: A Reader’s Journey Through the Great Books.
      Recent books of poetry include McLuhan’s Canary (2019), The First Taste: New and Selected Poems (2018), 1967: Centennial Year (2017), The Madness of Planets (2015), The Arrow of Time (2015), Testing the Elements (2014), A Litany of the Makers (2014), A Book of Bread (2011), and The Obsession Book of Timbuktu (2011).
      From 1996 to 2003, he was Director of the Writing and Literature Program at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies where he created and directed the Creative Writing, Professional Writing, and Literary Studies programs. He has served as the City of Barrie's inaugural poet laureate.
      He has organized dozens of literary conferences and festivals including Orillia's Leacock Summer Festival of Canadian Literature, Georgian College's International Festival of Authors and the first Indigenous Writers of Canada Conference, part of 2015's International Festival of Authors in Toronto.
      He has given hundreds of talks on poetry, literature, mythology, creative writing, the works of William Shakespeare and the Homeric tradition. In 2000, he delivered the annual Whidden Lecture at McMaster University, a distinction previously bestowed on physicist Robert J. Oppenheimer and playwright Tom Stoppard.
      His works have been published in Canada, United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, India, Pakistan, China, Nigeria, Bangladesh, Chile, Mexico, Yemen, Greece, Australia, Denmark, Netherlands, and have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Hindi, Chinese, Urdu, Bangla, Greek, and Korean.


      Education


      Certificate of Post-Doctoral Studies, McMaster University, 1990
      Ph.D., Modern British Poetry, McMaster University, 1988
      Master of Arts, English, University of Toronto, 1982
      Bachelor of Arts, Honour English and Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto, 1980


      Teaching


      Visiting Professor, Victoria College, University of Toronto, 2013-
      Professor, University Studies, Liberal Arts, Georgian College, 2007-
      Professor, Laurentian University at Georgian College, 2004-2015
      Special Instructor, University of Toronto, St. Michael's College, 2003–2010
      Professor, Seneca at York Program, 2005


      Career Milestones


      Inaugural Poet Laureate, City of Barrie, 2010-2014
      Co-founder, Barrie Arts and Culture Council, 2007-2011
      Artistic Director, Leacock Summer Festival of Canadian Literature, Orillia, 1998-2008
      Founder and director, University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, Creative Writing and Literary Studies program, 1997-2003
      Writer-in-residence, University of Texas at Austin, 1999
      Writer-in-residence, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, 1998
      Researcher/developer, World War One Canadian Literature Collection, National Library of Canada, 1988-1994
      Organizer, Indigenous Writers Conference, Georgian College, and International Festival of Authors, 2013 (a first for Ontario & Canada)
      Broadcaster (with Michael Enright), CBC's This Morning, The Sunday Edition, Great Books, A Novel Idea, Great Poetry: Poetry is Life and Vice Versa
      Discoverer and promoter of lost decade of Canadian Literature—Canada's World War One Trench Literature—published as We Wasn’t Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War (co-edited with Barry Callaghan, afterword by Margaret Atwood); Frank Prewett, The Selected Poems of Frank Prewett (Exile Editions); James Hanley, The German Prisoner (Exile Editions); W. Redvers Dent, Cry Havoc (Rocks Mills Press)


      Select Awards


      Bath Short Story Award (UK), finalist, 2019, 2020
      Bannister Poetry Competition, Niagara Branch, Canadian Authors’ Association, runner-up, 2020
      Libretto Chapbook Poetry Prize (NIG), second runner-up, 2020
      Fish Publishing Short Fiction Prize (IRE), finalist, 2020
      Dr. William Henry Drummond Poetry Prize, third place, 2019
      Thomas Morton Fiction Prize (CAN), runner-up, 2019
      Bath Short Story Award (UK), finalist, 2019
      Anton Chekhov Prize for Fiction (UK), winner, 2019
      Retreat West Fiction Prize (UK), finalist, 2019
      Tom Gallon Fiction Prize, Society of Authors (UK), short list, 2019
      National Poetry Prize (UK), short list, 2019
      London Independent Short Story Prize (UK), double short list, 2018
      Fish Publishing Poetry Prize (IRE), short list, 2018
      The Woolf Poetry Prize (Switzerland), winner, 2018
      Freefall Poetry Prize (CAN), third place, 2015, 2018
      Montreal International Poetry Prize, short List, 2015, 2017
      Simcoe Medal for services to the Arts in Barrie, 2017 & Barrie Arts Award, 2015
      Raymond Souster Prize (CAN), finalist, 2016
      Carter V. Cooper Short Fiction Prize (CAN), short list, 2015, 2016
      Barrie Arts Awards, Excellence in the Arts, Lifetime Achievement Award, 2015
      Gwendolyn MacEwen Prize for Poetry (CAN), best single poem winner, 2015, 2016
      Fred Cogswell Prize for best book of poems in Canada, third place, 2015
      Indie Fab Award Finalist (US), Independent Reviewers Association, 2015
      IP Medal best book of poetry (US), Independent Booksellers Association of America, 2015
      Inaugural Poet Laureate, City of Barrie, 2010-2014
      Ruth Cable Memorial Prize for Poetry (US), 1996
      E.J. Pratt Gold Medal and Prize for Poetry, 1980, 1981
      Alta Lind Cook Award (CAN), 1981, 1982
      TV Ontario Best Lecturer Competition, top-ten finalist, 2010
      Lifetime Pass, Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York, 1998
      Quoted on Heritage Toronto Plaque, Queen and Broadview


      Bibliography




      = Poetry

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      The Hart Island Elegies, Urban Farmhouse Press, Windsor (forthcoming, May 2021)
      Grace of Falling Stars, Black Moss Press, Windsor (forthcoming, April 7, 2021)
      Telling the Bees, Libretto Press, Lagos, Nigeria, 2020
      McLuhan's Canary, Guernica Editions, Oakville, 2019
      The First Taste: New and Selected Poems, Black Moss Press, Windsor, 2018
      1967: Centennial Year, Black Moss Press, Windsor, 2017
      To Linares, Accento and Universidad Technologica Linares, Linares & Guadalajara, Mexico, 2016
      The Madness of Planets, Black Moss Press, Windsor, 2015
      The Arrow of Time, Ronsdale Press, Vancouver, 2015
      The Seasons, Porcupine's Quill, Erin, Ontario, 2014
      Testing the Elements, Exile Editions, Toronto, 2014
      The Obsession Book of Timbuktu, Black Moss Press, Windsor
      A Litany of the Makers, Lyrical Myrical Press, Toronto, 2014
      A Book of Bread, Exile Editions, Toronto, 2011
      Alphabestiary: A Poetry-Emblem Book (with H. Masud Taj), Exile Editions, 2011
      Bread: A Mass for Voices, Lyrical Myrical Press, Toronto, 2009
      Dog Days: A Comedy of Terriers, Black Moss Press, Windsor, 2009
      Mesopotamia, Scrivener Press, Sudbury, 2009
      As Yet, Untitled..., Lyrical Myrical Press, Toronto, 2006
      Oceans, Word Press, Cincinnati, Ohio, 2005
      Oceans, Exile Editions, Toronto, 2004
      The Spirit Bride, Exile Editions, Toronto, 2002
      Anywhere, Exile Editions, Toronto, 2000
      The Presence, Black Moss Press, Windsor, 1999
      The Presence, Story Line Press, Ashland, Oregon, 1999
      Radio Silence, Black Moss Press, Windsor, 1991
      The Open Room, Black Moss Press, Windsor, 1989
      The Open Room, Aquila Press, 1989
      Steel Valley (with James Deahl), Aureole Point Press, 1984
      The Aging of America, Aloysius Press, 1982
      The Tongues Between Us, SWOP, 1981 (36 pages)


      = Fiction

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      The Hours: Stories from a Pandemic (short stories), AOS Publishing, Montreal, 2021
      Down in the Ground (flash fiction), Guernica Editions, Oakville, 2020
      A Feast of Brief Hopes (short stories), Guernica Editions, Oakville, 2018
      A Chronicle of Magpies (short stories), Tightrope Books, Toronto, 2014
      Flights (short stories), Canadian-Korean Literary Forum Press, Toronto, 2004
      Goodbye Mr. Spalding (short stories), Black Moss Press, Windsor, 1996


      = Non-Fiction

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      Pressing Matters: A Story of Canadian Small Press Publishing, Black Moss Press, Windsor, 2019
      Portraits of Canadian Writers, Porcupine's Quill, Erin, 2016
      Time of the Last Goal: Why Hockey is Our Game, Black Moss Press, Windsor, 2014
      Alphabet Table: Memoir of a Childhood in the Language, Black Moss Press, Windsor, 2010
      Heroes: The Champions of Our Literary Imaginations, Harper Collins, Toronto, 2007
      Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 282: The New Formalists, (co-edited with Jonathan Barron) Bruccoli Clarke Layman, Columbia, South Carolina, 2003
      The Golden Thread: A Reader's Journey Through the Great Books, Harper_Collins Canada, Toronto, 2000
      Lives and Works: Interviews with Canadian Writers (with Brian O’Riordan), Black Moss Press, Toronto, 1991
      In Their Words: Interviews with Canadian Writers (with Brian O’Riordan), Anansi, Toronto, 1985
      Poetry Markets for Canadians (with James Deahl), League of Canadian Poets, Toronto, 1983


      = Works edited

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      That Dammed Beaver: Canadian Comedy Writing, Exile Editions, 2018
      Dent, W. Redvers. Cry Havoc, Rocks Mills Press, Oakville, 2018
      Cli-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change, Exile Editions, Toronto, 2018
      We Wasn't Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War 2nd Edition (with Barry Callaghan), Exile Editions, 2014
      The White-Collar Book: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the Professional World (with Carolyn Meyer), Black Moss Press, Windsor, 2011
      Hanley, James. The German Prisoner. Exile Editions, 2007
      Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 282: The New Formalists (with Jonathan Baron), Bruccoli Clarke Layman, Columbia, South Carolina, 2003
      Bae-Sa Moh: Writing by Korean-Canadian Youth, KCLF Press, Toronto, 2002
      We Wasn't Pals: Canadian Poetry and Prose of the First World War (with Barry Callaghan), Exile Editions, 2001
      Separate Islands: Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (with Carolyn Meyer), Quarry Press, 1987
      The Selected Poems of Frank Prewett (with Barry Callaghan), Exile Editions, 1987
      Arrivals: Canadian Poetry in the Eighties, Greenfield Press, 1986
      Poetry Markets for Canadians (with James Deahl, 1st ed.), League of Canadian Poets, 1986


      = Edited selected works by other authors

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      Books by Michael Mirolla, Marty Gervais, Victoria Butler, Antonia Facciponte, Kate Story, Karen Lee White, Christine Ottoni.
      Clarke, James. Selected Poems. Exile Editions, Toronto, 2012
      Stevens, Peter. Swimming in the Afternoon: The Selected Poems of Peter Stevens. [ed. and intro.] Black Moss Press, Windsor, 1992
      Monteith, Lionel. And So He Went Sailing: The Collected Poems of Lionel Monteith. [ed. and intro.] Lincoln Publications, London, 1991
      Tomlinson, Charles. Selected and New Poems. [ed.] Exile Editions, Toronto, 1989
      Wevill, David. Figure of Eight: New Poems and Selected Translations. [ed.] Exile Editions, Toronto, 1987
      Wevill, David. Other Names for the Heart: Selected Poems, 1964-1984. [ed.] ExileEditions, Toronto, 1985
      Deahl, James. No Cold Ash: Selected Poems, 1966–1982. Sono Nis Press, 1984.


      = Cassette Tapes and CDs

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      Great Poetry: Poetry Is Life and Vice Versa (with Michael Enright), CBC Radio, 2006
      The Great Books, Part One (with Michael Enright), CBC Radio, 1999 [The Bible, The Odyssey, The Theban Plays, The Aeneid, Metamorphoses]
      The Great Books, Part Two (with Michael Enright) CBC Radio, 1999 [Boethius, A Consolation of Philosophy; Saint Augustine, The Confessions; The Quest of the Holy Grail and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Dante, Inferno; Dante, La Vita Nuova; Shakespeare, The Sonnets]
      The Great Books, Part Three (with Michael Enright) CBC Radio, 1999 [Vasari, Lives of the Artists; Machiavelli, The Prince; More, Utopia; Shakespeare, King Lear; Shakespeare, The Tempest; Milton, Paradise Lost; Joyce, Ulysses].
      A Novel Idea (with Michael Enright) CBC Radio, 2000 [The Origins of the Novel, The Gothic Novel, The Historical Novel, The Novel of Ideas, The Prophetic Novel, The Role of the Novel].


      = Podcasts

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      Great Poetry (with Michael Enright and Billy Collins), Ideas, CBC Radio One and CBC Enterprises, March–May 2006


      Articles on Bruce Meyer's Work


      Benjamin Ghan. Bruce Meyer: Canadian Writers Series. Guernica Editions, Hamilton (forthcoming, 2023)
      Juan de Dios Torralbo-Caballero. The Poetry of Bruce Meyer: The inaugural poet laureate of the city of Barrie. Granada, Comares. 2015
      T.L. Ponick. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 282. 2003


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