Douglas Burnet Smith

Douglas Burnet Smith is the author of 13 books of poems.  He has been nominated for the Governor General´s Award for poetry, the Atlantic Prize for poetry, and has won the Long Poem Prize from the Malahat Review.  His poetry has been translated into French, Spanish, Bosnian, German, and Finnish.  He has been Writer in Residence at the following institutions--Cleveland State University, the University of Prince Edward Island, Fern Hill School, St. Clement´s School, and Shawnigan Lake School.  His work has been published in numerous literary journals in Canada and the U.S., and he has been invited to read from his work at literary festivals in England, the United States, France, Bosnia, Serbia, Finland, Germany and Italy.  He teaches at St. Frances Xavier University in Nova Scotia and at the American University of Paris.  He divides his time between Canada, France and Argentina.

Awards
Dallas Taylor Memorial Prize, 1972.
Chancellor's Prize for Poetry, University of Manitoba, 1973.
The Malahat Review Long Poem Contest, 1989.
Governor General's Award for Poetry, finalist, 1993.

Selected Publications
Thaw. (Four Humours Press, 1977).
Scarecrow. (Turnstone Press, 1980).
Light of Our Bones. (Turnstone Press, 1980).
Living in the Cave of the Mouth. (Owl's Head Press, 1988).
Ladder to the Moon. (Brick Books, 1988).
The KnifeThrower's Partner. (Wolsak and Wynn, 1989).
Voices from a Farther Room. (Wolsak and Wynn, 1992).
Two Minutes for Holding. (House of Anansi, 1995).

Selected Anthologies
Draft: An Anthology of Prairie Poetry. (Turnstone Press, 1981).

Books in Print
Smith, Douglas Burnet
Ladder to the Moon. Brick Books, 1988. $9.95 ISBN: 0-919626-36-X.
Living in the Cave of the Mouth. Owl's Head Press, 1988. $7.00 ISBN: 0-920635-03-2.
The Knife-Thrower's Partner. Wolsak and Wynn, 1989. $10.00 ISBN: 0-919897-15-0.
Two Minutes for Holding. Anansi, 1995. $14.95 ISBN: 0-88784-567-3.
Voices from a Farther Room. Wolsak and Wynn, 1992. $10.00 ISBN: 0-919897-32-0.

Douglas Burnet Smith, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish NS B2G 2W5, (902) 867-2223
dsmith@stfx.ca

phone: (905) 867-2223

email: dsmith@stfx.ca

Douglas Burnet Smith is the author of 11 books of poetry. His work has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and has won the Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize, in addition to appearing in many poetry anthologies. He has been writer-in-residence at a number of North American universities and at Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver island. He as been active in the Writers in the Schools program in Nova Scotia for twenty years, and has conducted “how-to” workshops for the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union.

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