Sue MacLeod

Sue MacLeod was born in Kingston, Ontario in 1955, and now lives in Halifax with her teenage daughter. She works part-time as a Library Assistant in the Halifax Regional Library.

 

Awards
The League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest, second prize 2000, third prize, 1994.
Kalamalka Poetry Competition, tied for fourth place, 1995.
Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award, finalist, 1997.
Hawthornden International Writing Fellowship, 1997.

Arc's Poem of the Year contest, First Prize, 2000
Inaugural Poet laureate of Halifax, 2001 - 2005.

 

Selected Publications
The Language of Rain. (Roseway Publishing, 1995).
That Singing You Hear at the Edges (Signature Editions, 2003) ISBN 0-921833-90-3

 

Selected Anthologies
Vintage '94. (Quarry Press/The League of Canadian Poets, 1995).
The Senior Issues Collection: Travel and Tourism. (McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1995).
The Summit Anthology (Banff Centre Press, 1999).

Vintage 2000 (The League of Canadian Poets/Ronsdale Press, 2000) ISBN 0-921870-75-2

RipRap (Banff Centre Press,1999) ISBN 0-920159-65-6

Words Out There: Women Poets in Atlantic Canada (Roseway Publishing, 1999) ISBN 1-896496-09-1

 

Books in Print
MacLeod, Sue
The Language of Rain, Poetry (Roseway Publishing, 1995) $9.95 ISBN 1-896496-00-8.
That Singing You Hear at the Edges, Poetry (Signature Editions, 2003) $14.95,

ISBN 0-921833-90-3.

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Sue MacLeod, 6027 Charles St., #1, Halifax NS B3K 1K9

phone: (902)422-2995

sue.macleod@ns.sympatico.ca

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