Charles Hugh Mountford

Charles Hugh Mountford was born in Fort William, Ontario, before it became part of Thunder Bay, and is still keenly interested in happenings there. He attended the University of Western Ontario (MA, English), and the University of London where he is a dissertation away from a PhD in Librarianship. He speaks, reads, and writes French and Persian and is working (very slowly), on translations of poetry from those languages. He has written three opera librettos on Canadian themes (Voice Of An Angel, about the lieder singer, John Boyden, A Stronger Thought Of Love, about the Donnelleys of Lucan and Henry Hudson, about the explorer Henry Hudson). All of these operas have had productions in Stratford. He and his wife, Ruth, currently divide their time between Stratford and Quebec City.

 

Awards
Alberta Poetry Contest, First Prize, Short Poem Category

Selected Publications
The Harvest of Glass (Jubilee Press, Mitchell, 1980)
Henry Hudson (The William Street Press, Stratford, 1985)
The Harvestman (Pendas Productions, London, 2004)
The Night The Ducks Got Loose (Penda Productions, London, 2006)
The Thing On The Comb (Pendas Productions, London, for release fall 2007)

Selected Anthologies
Alberta Poetry Year Book (Canadian Authors' Association, 1966).
An Anthology of London Poets (London Public Libraries and Museums, 1982).
Here is a Poem (The League of Canadian Poets, 1983).

Books in Print
Mountford, Charles Hugh
The Harvestman (Pendas Productions, London, 2004)
The Night The Ducks Got Loose (Penda Productions, London, 2006)
The Thing On The Comb (Pendas Productions, London, for release fall 2007)

 

Charles Hugh Mountford, 224 Wellington St., Stratford, Ontario N5A 2L6 (519) 271-9459
E -mail: c_mountford@sympatico.ca

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