Victor Coleman (born September 9, 1944) is a Canadian poet.
Biography
Born in Toronto, Coleman was the first editor at
Coach House Books
Coach House Books is an independent book publishing company located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Coach House publishes experimental poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction. The press is particularly interested in writing that pushes at the boundar ...
from 1966 until 1975. After his tenure in publishing, he managed the multidisciplinary art centre,
A Space in Toronto for four years. He has also taught film studies at
Queen's University and creative writing at
York University
York University (french: Université York), also known as YorkU or simply YU, is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's fourth-largest university, and it has approximately 55,700 students, 7,000 faculty and staf ...
.
Victor Coleman
at The Canadian Encyclopedia
''The Canadian Encyclopedia'' (TCE; french: L'Encyclopédie canadienne) is the national encyclopedia of Canada, published online by the Toronto-based historical organization Historica Canada, with the support of Canadian Heritage.
Available f ...
, accessed September 1, 2019
Bibliography
*''Old Friends' Ghosts: Poems 1963-68'' (1970)
*''Terrific at Both Ends'' (1978)
*''Captions for the Deaf'' (1979)
*''From the Dark Wood'' (1985)
*''Corrections'' (1985)
*''Lapsed WASP'' (1994)
*''The Exchange: Poems 1984-95'' (1999)
*''LETTER DROP'' (2000)
*''Honeymoon Suite/ Letter Drop'' (2001)
*''MI SING'' (2004)
*''Icon Tact'' (2006)
*''Driven To Our Knees'' (2008)
*''Mal Arme: Letter to Drop III'' (2008)
*''The Occasional Troubadour'' (2010)
*''O - Three Lectures and a Postscript'' (2010)
*''IvH: An Alphamath Serial'' (2012)
*''Miserable Singers: Book One'' (2014)
See also
*Canadian literature
Canadian literature is the literature of a multicultural country, written in languages including Canadian English, Canadian French, Indigenous languages, and many others such as Canadian Gaelic. Influences on Canadian writers are broad both ...
*Canadian poetry
Canadian poetry is poetry of or typical of Canada. The term encompasses poetry written in Canada or by Canadian people in the official languages of English and French, and an increasingly prominent body of work in both other European and Indigeno ...
*List of Canadian poets
This is a list of Canadian poets. Years link to corresponding " earin poetry" articles.
A
*Mark Abley (born 1955), poet, journalist, editor, and non-fiction writer.
* Milton Acorn (1923–1986), poet, writer, and playwright
*José Acqueli ...
References
External links
(The Toronto New School of Writing)
Coleman
The Canadian Encyclopedia
(Reading of ''The Occasional Troubadour'')
Records of Victor Coleman are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
*Archives of Victor Colema
(Victor Coleman fonds, R11721)
are held at Library and Archives Canada
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1944 births
Living people
Canadian male poets
Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston
Academic staff of York University
Writers from Toronto
20th-century Canadian poets
20th-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian poets
Canadian editors
21st-century Canadian male writers