Brian Henderson (born 1948) is a

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, and photographer, whose book of poetry ''Nerve Language'' was shortlisted for the

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for Poetry in 2007.

Biography

Henderson, born in 1948 in

Kitchener, Ontario Kitchener is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario, about west of Toronto. It is one of three cities that make up the Regional Municipality of Waterloo and is the regional Administrative centre, seat. Kitchener was known as Berlin until a ...

, has a PhD in

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from

York University York University (), also known as YorkU or simply YU), is a public university, public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, and it has approximately 53,500 students, 7,000 faculty and staff, ...

. Henderson has worked as a university instructor, a

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, a

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/ receiver, and a rock

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. He is the author of thirteen collections of poetry including ''The Alphamiricon'', a deck of visual poem-cards. His work has been published in many small

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s. In the 1970s Henderson was a founding

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of ''

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''. He was the director of

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from 2005-2016.

Literary activities

His poetry and

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has appeared in

Arc Poetry Magazine ''Arc Poetry Magazine'' is a triannual literary magazine established in 1978, publishing poetry and prose about poetry. History ''Arc'' was started in 1978 by Carleton University professors Christopher Levenson, Michael Gnarowski and Tom Henig ...

, Antigonish Review,

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, CVII,

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, ECW,

The Fiddlehead ''The Fiddlehead'' is a Canadian literary magazine, published four times annually at the University of New Brunswick. It is the oldest Canadian literary magazine which is still in circulation. History and profile ''The Fiddlehead'' was establ ...

, Prism, Quarry, Rampike, RUNE (of which he was a founding editor for its decade of existence), Scrivener, Writ and many other literary journals since 1974.

Awards

Nominations

* Governor General's Award for Poetry, 2007, finalist (for ''Nerve Language'') * Canadian Author’s Association Award for Poetry, 2012, finalist (for ''Sharawadji'') * Raymond Souster Award, 2020, longlisted

Published works

Books: *''Unfinishing'', McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 *''Unidentified Poetic Object'', Brick Books, 2019 *'' R', Talonbooks, 2014 *''Sharawadji'', Brick Books, 2011 *''Nerve Language'', Pedlar Press, 2007 *''Light in Dark Objects'', Ekstasis Editions, 2000 *''Year Zero'', Brick Books, 1995 *''Smoking Mirror'',

ECW Press ECW Press is a Canadian book publisher located in Toronto, Ontario. It was founded by Jack David and Robert Lecker in 1974 as a Canada, Canadian literary magazine named ''Essays on Canadian Writing''. They started publishing trade and scholar ...

, 1990 *''The Alphamiricon'', Underwhich Editions, 1987; available on Ubu.com/visual poetry *''Migration of Light'', General Publishing, 1983 *''The Veridical Book of the Silent Planet'', Aya Press, 1978 *''Paracelsus'', Porcupine's Quill, 1977 *''The Expanding Room'', Black Moss Press, 1977 Anthologies: *W.H. New, ed., Inside the Poem,

Oxford University Press Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...

, 1992 *Robert Allen, ed., The Lyric Paragraph, D.C. Books, 1987 *Leslie Nutting, ed., The Toronto Collection, Manoeuvers Press, 1984 *Ken Norris, Twenty Canadian Poets of the Eighties,

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, 1984

External links

Official websiteAuthor page at Brick Books

References

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