He is currently the Director of Creative Writing at the University of New Brunswick and Editor of The Fiddlehead, without a doubt Canada's finest litrerary journal.Ê He has published essays on Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Russell Banks, and the theory of cultural studies, and his poetry has appeared in the major Canadian and American journals, including The New Republic, American Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, Southwest Review, The Fiddlehead, Descant, The Malahat Review, and The Antigonish Review.Ê He is nearing completion of a new manuscript of poetry called Variations After a Summer Storm.Ê He is a co-editor of the forthcoming Coastlines: An Anthology of Atlantic Poetry from Goose Lane Editions to be launched in October 2002.Ê And, of course, he is currently Past President of The League of Canadian Poets.
Selected Publications
A Slow Light. (Signal Editions, 1983).
The Authority of Roses. (Brick Books, 1997).
Selected Anthologies
The Inner Ear, ed. Gary Geddes. (Quadrant Editions, 1983).
Cross-Cut: Quebec Poetry in English, ed. Ken Norris and Peter
van Toorn. (VŽhicule Press, 1984).
The Signal Anthology, ed. Michael Harris. (VŽhicule Press,
1993).
New Life in Dark Seas: Brick Books 25 (Brick Books, 2000) ISBN
1-894078-10-1.
Why I Sing the Blues (Smoking Lung Press, 2001) ISBN
1-894442-01-6.
Landmarks: An Anthology of New Atlantic Canadian Poetry of the Land
(Acorn Press, 2001) ISBN 0-9698606-9-2.
Books in Print
Leckie, Ross
The Authority of Roses. (Brick Books, 1997) ISBNÊ
0-919626-90-4. $12.95.
Ross Leckie, Department of English, UNB,ÊBox 4400
Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3 Canada
Phone 506-458-7395 Fax 506-453-5069