Christopher Dewdney

Christopher Dewdney ( born May 9, 1951 in London, Ontario ) is a Canadian writer and poet.

Life

Christopher Dewdney was born in London, Ontario, and currently lives in Toronto, where he is a professor of English literature at York University. He has long been a partner of the novelist Barbara Gowdy. Winning the Harbourfront Festival Prize 2007 has published four monographs with non-fiction topics and eleven works of poetry. Four times nominated for the Governor General's Award, Dewdney won the first prize in the CBC Literary Competition for poetry. In 2005 his book Acquainted With The Night was: Excursions into the World After Dark translated both the Governor General's Award and The Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction and nominated in seven languages.

Christopher Dewdney is the son of Canadian artist and author Selwyn Dewdney, brother of Alexander Keewatin Dewdney and the great-grandnephew of Edgar Dewdney (Vice Governor: British Columbia 1892-1897, North West Territories, 1881-1888 ). In addition, he was featured in the film Poetry in Motion.

Awards

Work

  • A Palaeozoic Geology of London, Ontario (1974 ) Coach House Press
  • Fovea centralis (1975 ) Coach House Press
  • Age Sublime (1980 ) Coach House Press
  • Predators of the Adoration (1983 ) McClelland and Stewart
  • The Immaculate Perception (1985 ) House of Anansi Press
  • Permugenisis (1987 ) Nightwood Editions
  • The Radiant Inventory ( 1988) McClelland and Stewart
  • Demon Pond ( 1994) McClelland and Stewart
  • Signal Fires (including A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario, books 3 and 4) - McClelland and Stewart, 2000
  • The Natural History (2002) ECW
  • Children of the outer dark: the poetry of Christopher Dewdney (2007) Wilfrid Laurier Press
  • The Secular Grail (1993 ) Somerville House
  • Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era (1998) ISBN 0-00-638472-2 Harper Collins Canada
  • Acquainted With the Night ( 2004) HarperCollins Canada, Bloomsbury New York, Bloomsbury London, ISBN 1-58234-396-9 ( hardcover ) ISBN 0-00-639164-8 ( paperback )
  • Soul of The World: Unlocking the Secrets of Time (2008) ISBN 978-1-55468-002-3 HarperCollins
  • "Parasite Maintenance " Open Letter series 4, no 6-7 ( Winter 1980-81 )
  • " bpNichol, 1944-1988 ," Brick: A Journal of Reviews, Vol 34 (Autumn 1988)
  • " Enigmatic Emblematic: The Internal Logic of Judith Schwarz's Sculpture", Canadian Art, Vol 6, 4 ( Winter 1989)
  • "Power Dreams", Descant, Vol 23, 1-2, ( Spring / Summer 1992)
  • " Projected Consciousness ", Descant, Vol 27, 1-2, ( Spring / Summer 1996)
  • "After Deep Blue," Saturday Night, Vol 113, 3 ( April 1998)
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