Barry McKinnon
Barry McKinnon ( born 1944 in Calgary, Alberta ) is a Canadian poet, who in 1992 was the belonging to the BC Book Prizes Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and 1995 and 2004 bp Nichol Chap - Book Award win.
Life
Barry Benjamin McKinnon in 1944, born in Calgary, Alberta, where he also grew up. In youth McKinnon was a talented bebop drummer, but was convinced by Bradford Robinson assume that he would have an even greater sealing talent. Robinson took the time to already existing texts edited McKinnon, let the young man they improve until both were convinced of the result. 1965 visited McKinnon after two years of college, the Sir George Williams University in Montreal, where he completed courses in poetry Irving Layoton. 1967 graduated with a Bachelor and 1969 with a Master of Arts at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In 1967 he made his debut with the poetry collection The Golden Daybreak Hair. In 1969 he took a job as an English teacher at the College of New Caledonia in Prince George, where he has lived ever since. McKinnon writes in the preferred form of the long poem (long poem ) or the serial sequence.
In 1970 he founded the Caledonia Writing Series and acted in the following years as its editor. The Caledonia Writing Series should establish itself since then as a group of independent poets British Columbia. His interviews with these poets were published in 1980 in the journal Open Letter. 1971 McKinnon formulated in Al Purdy's anthology Storm Warning following self-description " I started to write poetry as to act of rebellion -. Claimsoft to an identity did what my own"
The The (1980 ) came into the final round of the prestigious Governor General's Award in the following year.
In 1990 he issued Victoria Walker's work Suitcase, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize to the received this year. He in turn was nominated two years later for belonging to the BC Book Prizes Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize by his residence in British Columbia. He could decide for himself Pulplog with this award this year. The bp Nichol Chap - Book Award 1995 and 2004 he was able to decide for themselves.
Bolivia / Peru (2003 ) is a mixture of prose fragments, diary entries and poems that were based on a five week trip to Peru and the 2004 bp Nichol Chap - Book Award was awarded to the McKinnon. In the millenium (2009) combines a collection of poems of the last decade and various prose texts McKinnon.
Barry McKinnon taught English at the College of New Caledonia in Prince George, British Columbia until his retirement in 2005. On 26 May 2006, the University of British Columbia awarded him an honorary doctorate of rights. The reason led you to that he had 35 years all those budget constraint opposes Creative Writing in the tray to continue despite the regional Tight promote similar to George Bowering Canadian Poetry: " For over 35 years, Barry McKinnon Has Suffered the budget cuts and downsizing, the redistribution of resources to more practical than creative writing programs, and the stigma of being from a smaller urban center ".
Among his more famous pupils Barbara Munk heard. During his time in the province metropolis Prince George McKinnon organized more than 100 readings, including Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje and the earlier inhabitants of the town of Brian Fawcett.
Review
- " McKinnon stretches language and DOCUMENT It takes a few readings to get the gist and admire it. Will readers have the patience? We live and read under the tyranny of instant access and synthesis poems do not lend Themselves to a quick hit. Yet someone Has To Do It; stretch the language. The complex realities did inform his poems are fractured on the page, cut up, jagged, interspersed on spaced-out lines. Spliced assemblages do not make for pretty poems. McKinnon says he wants his poems to be " habitable and yet show dissolving forces. "
- " Barry McKinnon 's wrestling the alligator is a sly. "
Reception
- "The most graphic example of poem as processthat I can find is Barry McKinnon 's The Death of a Lyric Poet. "
Work
- The Golden Daybreak Hair. Toronto, ON: Aliquondo Press, 1967.
- The Carcasses of Spring. Vancouver, BC: Talon Books, 1971.
- Stamp collection: written and drawn with a special delivery, morning of Aug. 27 / 70th Blewointmentpress, Vancouver 1973.
- I Wanted to Say Something. Prince George, BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1975.
- Death of a Lyric Poet. Prince George, BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1975.
- Songs & Speeches. Prince George, BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1976.
- The organizer. Gorse Press, Prince George, B.c 1979.
- The the. ( Fragment ). Prince George, BC: Repository / Gorse Press, 1979.
- The The. Toronto, ON:. Coach House Press, 1980 (1981 for the Governor General's Award nomination ) ISBN 0-88910-217-1.
- Thoughts / Sketches. North Vancouver, BC: Tatlow / Gorse, 1985.
- I Wanted to Say Something. Red Deer, AB: Red Deer College Press, 1990 ISBN 0-88995-046-6. .
- Pulplog. Prince George, BC: Caitlin Press, 1991, ISBN 0-920576-34-6.
- Four Realities: Poets from northern BC. Prince George, BC: Caitlin Press, 1992.
- Arrythmia. Prince George, BC: Gorse Press, 1994.
- The Centre. Prince George, BC: Caitlin Press, 1995, ISBN 0-920576-51-6.
- Bolivia / Peru. Gorse Press, Prince George 2003, ISBN 1-895101-12-3.
- The center: poems, 1970-2000. Talon Books, Vancouver 2004, ISBN 0-88922-497-8.
- In the millenium. New Star Books, Vancouver 2009, ISBN 978-1-55420-047-4.
- With Jim Brown: Vancouver Writing lakes in the 60s. In: line 7/8. 1986, p 940-123.
- Sappho 's Gaps: a review of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson. In Vancouver Review. 11. November 2004. (Print version was shortened). Retrieved on 8 July 2012.