Alex Boyd (born 1969) is a

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, and

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. His essays and articles have appeared in the ''Globe and Mail'', and elsewhere. His first book of poems, Making Bones Walk, was published in 2007. From 2003 to 2008, he hosted the IV Lounge Reading Series in Toronto, presenting fiction readers alongside poets, and eventually co-editing IV Lounge Nights, an anthology to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the series. He established ''Northern Poetry Review'', a site for poetry articles and reviews, in April 2006. In 2008, he established Digital Popcorn, a site for personal film reviews, and has helped launch the ''Best Canadian Essays'' series with

Tightrope Books Tightrope Books is a Canadian independent book publisher based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 2005 by Halli Villegas, Tightrope Books publishes mainly poetry and fiction, as well as non-fiction and anthologies. As a "writer-centric pr ...

, co-editing the first two collections. His second book of poems ''The Least Important Man'' was published by Biblioasis in 2012, and his first novel ''Army of the Brave and Accidental'', a retelling of ''

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'' as modern mythology, was published in 2018 with Nightwood Editions. ''Army of the Brave and Accidental'' was shortlisted for the 2019

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for fiction.

Awards

* 2008

Gerald Lampert Award The Gerald Lampert Memorial Award is made annually by the League of Canadian Poets The League of Canadian Poets (LCP), founded in 1966, is a national non-profit arts service organization based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The organization acts as t ...

Works

* ''Making Bones Walk'', (poems) Luna Publications, 2007, *''I.V. Lounge Nights'', Editors Myna Wallin, Alex Boyd, Tightrope Books, 2008, *''Best Canadian Essays, 2009'', Editors Carmine Starnino, Alex Boyd, Tightrope Books, 2009, *''Best Canadian Essays, 2010'', Editors

Kamal Al-Solaylee Kamal Al-Solaylee (born 1964) is a Canadian journalist, who published his debut book, ''Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes'', in 2012. He is currentldirectorof the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at Canada's University of British Columbia ...

, Alex Boyd, Tightrope Books, 2010, *''The Least Important Man, (poems) Biblioasis, 2012, *Army of the Brave and Accidental (novel) Nightwood Editions, 2018

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* Living people 21st-century Canadian poets 1969 births Canadian male poets 21st-century Canadian male writers {{Canada-poet-stub