Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay

Méira Cook

Apr 2006 · Laurier Poetry Book 2 · Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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This volume features thirty-five of Don McKay’s best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Méira 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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Don McKay was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada in 1942. He was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned received a PhD in 1971. He taught creative writing and English for 27 years at several universities including the University of Western Ontario and the University of New Brunswick. He is a poet, who has published over 10 collections of poetry including Long Sault, Lependu, Camber: Selected Poems, and Apparatus. He has won several awards including the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1991 for Night Field and in 2000 for Another Gravity, the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry for Birding, or Desire, and the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for Strike/Slip. He was an editor and publisher with Brick Books. Méira Cook was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1964, received her PhD in Canadian literature from the University of Manitoba, and has recently completed a two-year term as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of British Columbia. She has published poetry, criticism, a novel and, in 2005, Writing Lovers: Reading Canadian Love Poetry by Women. She has taught creative writing in high schools, literature at university, and has worked as a freelance film and arts reviewer and editor. She lives in Winnipeg.

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