David Solway (born 8 December 1941) is a

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, educational theorist,

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and

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. He is a member of the Jubilate Circle and formerly a teacher of

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. He has spent most of his life in the

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area and now lives in Hudson,

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. Solway is known for his work both as a

, essayist and as a

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, as well as for his

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outspokenness, especially in opposition to Islam and in defense of

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and the

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. He has contributed political commentary to the conservative websites

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and PJ Media. He has been described as a part of the

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movement. For inspiration, he invented a Greek poet named

Andreas Karavis {{more citations needed, date=September 2012 Andreas Karavis is a non-existent Greek poet created by Canadian poet David Solway. In October 1999, '' Books in Canada'' published an article titled "Modern Homer" about a supposedly newly discovered ...

as a heteronym, whose work he published in apparent translation.

Bibliography

Poetry

* ''The Road to Arginos'' (1976) * ''Twelve Sonnets'' (1978) * ''Mephistopheles and the Astronaut'' (1979) * ''Stones in Water'' (1983) * ''Modern Marriage'' (1987) * ''Bedrock'' (1993) * ''Chess Pieces'' (1999) * ''Saracen Island: The Poetry of Andreas Karavis'' (as Andreas Karavis; 2000) * ''The Lover's Progress: Poems after William Hogarth'' (2001) * ''Franklin's Passage'' (2003) * ''The Pallikari Of Nesmine Rifat'' (as Nesmine Rifat; 2005) * ''Reaching for Clear: The Poetry of Rhys Savarin'' (2007) (winner of the

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) * ''Windsurfing (2008)

Essays and criticism

* ''Education Lost'' (1989) * ''Random Walks'' * ''Lying about the Wolf: Essays in Culture & Education'' (1997) * ''The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods: Liberal Studies in the Corporate Age'' (2000) * ''An Andreas Karavis Companion'' (2000) * ''Director's Cut'' (2003) *''The Big Lie: On Terror, Antisemitism, and Identity'' (2007) * ''Hear, O Israel!'' (2009) *''Notes from a Derelict Culture'' (2019)

References

* New, W. H., ed. ''The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada.'' Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. p. 1058. * Carmine Starnino, ed. ''David Solway, Essays on His Works'' (2001) {{DEFAULTSORT:Solway, David 1941 births Living people 20th-century Canadian poets Canadian male poets Canadian literary critics Canadian political writers Canadian critics of Islam Counter-jihad activists 20th-century Canadian male writers Canadian male non-fiction writers Jewish Canadian journalists

Bibliography

Poetry

Essays and criticism

See also

References