Patricia Keeney

A widely published poet both in Canada and abroad, Patricia Keeney is the author of six books of poetry and picaresque novel entitled The Incredible Shrinking Wife. A volume of her Selected Poems was published in 1996 with an introduction by the distinguished Russia poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Her poetry has also been translated and published into French, Spanish, Chinese and Hindi. One of three Canadian writers sent to Mexico in 1995 under a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) cultural exchange program, she has recently completed a series of conversations and poems on national and personal culture, entitled You Bring Me Wings with the Mexican poets Ethel Krauze. In December 2001, she undertook the launch and tour of her Hindi Selected (Vagdevi Press) in Bombay and Jaipur. Her latest volume of poetry called Global Warnings was published by Oberon in the autumn of 1999. Keeney is now working on new fiction. Published extensively as a literary and theatre critic, Keeney has taught Humanities and Creative Writing at York University for many years.

 

Awards
Canada-US-Mexico (NAFTA) Arts Residency (Mexico City), 1995.

 

Selected Publications
Swimming Alone. (Oberon Press, 1988).
New Moon, Old Mattress. (Oberon Press, 1990).
The New Pagans. (Oberon Press, 1991).
The Book of Joan. (Oberon Press, 1994).
The Incredible Shrinking Wife. Novel. (Black Moss Press, 1995).
The Selected Poems of Patricia Keeney. (Introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko). (Oberon Press, 1996).

Global Warnings (Oberon Press, 1999)

 

Selected Anthologies
The Oberon Poetry Collection. (HarperCollins, 1992).
Borderlines. Contemporary Poems in English. (Copp Clark, 1995).

 

Books in Print
Keeney, Patricia
New Moon, Old Mattress. Oberon Press, 1990. $23.95 ISBN: 0-88750-828-6 (hb); $11.95 ISBN: 0-88750-829-4 (pb).
Swimming Alone. Oberon Press, 1988. $11.95 ISBN: 0-88750-708-5.
The Book of Joan. Oberon Press, 1994. $23.95 ISBN: 0-88750-950-9 (hb); $11.95 ISBN: 0-88750-951-7 (pb).
The Incredible Shrinking Wife. Black Moss Press, 1995.
The New Pagans. Oberon Press, 1991. $25.95 ISBN: 0-88750-861-8 (hb); $12.95 ISBN: 0-88750-862-6 (pb).
The Selected Poems of Patricia Keeney. Oberon Press, 1996. $12.95 ISBN 0-7780-1032-5.

Global Warnings (Oberon Press, 1999)

 

Patricia Keeney, c/o Dept of Theatre, York University, North York ON M3J 1P3, (416) 736-2100, ext. 44751
patdon@yorku.ca

 

Poet in the School
(Toronto)

phone: 905-722-9150

email: patdon@yorku.ca

A widely published poet both in Canada and abroad, Patricia Keeney is the author of six books of poetry and picaresque novel entitled The Incredible Shrinking Wife. A volume of her Selected Poems was published in 1996 with an introduction by the distinguished Russia poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Her poetry has also been translated and published into French, Spanish, Chinese and Hindi. One of three Canadian writers sent to Mexico in 1995 under a North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) cultural exchange program, she has recently completed a series of conversations and poems on national and personal culture, entitled You Bring Me Wings with the Mexican poets Ethel Krauze. In December 2001, she undertook the launch and tour of her Hindi Selected (Vagdevi Press) in Bombay and Jaipur. Her latest volume of poetry called Global Warnings was published by Oberon in the autumn of 1999. Keeney is now working on new fiction. Published extensively as a literary and theatre critic, Keeney has taught Humanities and Creative Writing at York University for many years.

 

Grade Levels: Senior and OAC Students

 

Fees: standard

 

Classroom Approach:
Her approach is Seminar/Workshop and Editing Groups. Students need not be familiar with Keeney's work prior to her visit. With senior grades, she gives small workshops, working with small groups of students. Samples of student work, and that of others, are discussed and revision is encouraged. Keeney prefers to conduct 4-8 sessions over a period of a month, ending, where possible, with a formal one-hour reading open to both students and parents.