Douglas Burnet Smith

Douglas Burnet Smith is the author of eight books of poetry. His work has appeared widely in journals in Canada and the U.S. He has been Writer-in-Residence at Cleveland State University and the University of Prince Edward Island. He has served as President of the League of Canadian Poets and of the Public Lending Right Commission of Canada. He teaches at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. His work was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 1993.

Awards
Dallas Taylor Memorial Prize, 1972.
Chancellor's Prize for Poetry, University of Manitoba, 1973.
The Malahat Review Long Poem Contest, 1989.
Governor General's Award for Poetry, finalist, 1993.

Selected Publications
Thaw. (Four Humours Press, 1977).
Scarecrow. (Turnstone Press, 1980).
Light of Our Bones. (Turnstone Press, 1980).
Living in the Cave of the Mouth. (Owl's Head Press, 1988).
Ladder to the Moon. (Brick Books, 1988).
The KnifeThrower's Partner. (Wolsak and Wynn, 1989).
Voices from a Farther Room. (Wolsak and Wynn, 1992).
Two Minutes for Holding. (House of Anansi, 1995).

Selected Anthologies
Draft: An Anthology of Prairie Poetry. (Turnstone Press, 1981).

Books in Print
Smith, Douglas Burnet
Ladder to the Moon. Brick Books, 1988. $9.95 ISBN: 0-919626-36-X.
Living in the Cave of the Mouth. Owl's Head Press, 1988. $7.00 ISBN: 0-920635-03-2.
The Knife-Thrower's Partner. Wolsak and Wynn, 1989. $10.00 ISBN: 0-919897-15-0.
Two Minutes for Holding. Anansi, 1995. $14.95 ISBN: 0-88784-567-3.
Voices from a Farther Room. Wolsak and Wynn, 1992. $10.00 ISBN: 0-919897-32-0.

Douglas Burnet Smith, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish NS B2G 2W5, (902) 867-2223
dsmith@stfx.ca

Poet in the School
(Toronto)

phone: (905) 867-2223

email: dsmith@stfx.ca

Douglas Burnet Smith is the author of 11 books of poetry. His work has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the Atlantic Poetry Prize, and has won the Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize, in addition to appearing in many poetry anthologies. He has been writer-in-residence at a number of North American universities and at Shawnigan Lake School on Vancouver island. He as been active in the Writers in the Schools program in Nova Scotia for twenty years, and has conducted “how-to” workshops for the Nova Scotia Teachers’ Union.

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