George Swede

George Swede received his B.A. from the University of British Columbia in 1964 and his M.A. from Dalhousie University in 1965. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous books, anthologies, periodicals and miscellaneous publications around the world.

 

 

Awards
Canadian Children's Book Centre, Our Choice, 1984, 1985,1987, 1991, 1992
Museum of Haiku Literature Award, 1983, 1985, 1992
Japan Air Lines Grant for Japan Tour, 1990
Mainichi Daily News Haiku in English Contest, First Prize, 1993
Haiku Society of America Henderson Haiku Contest, Third Prize, 1997
Mainichi Daily News 125th Anniversary Haiku Contest, Second Prize, 1997
Japan Foundation Grant for Japan Tour, 1997
First Prize, The Snapshot Press Tanka Collection Competition 2005

 

Selected Publications
Tell-Tale Feathers. (Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1978) ISBN 0920110568.
A Snowman Headless. (Fiddlehead Books, 1979) ISBN 0920110843.
Tick Bird: Poems for Children. (Three Trees Press, 1983) ISBN 0888230699.
The Modern English Haiku (criticism). (Columbine Editions, 1981) ISBN 0919561004.
Night Tides. (South Western Ontario Poetry, 1984).
Time Is Flies. (Three Trees Press, 1986) ISBN 0888230915.
High Wire Spider: Poems for Children. (Three Trees Press, 1986) ISBN 0888231121.
Where Even Factories Have Lawns. (Gesture Press, 1988).
Leaping Lizard. (Three Trees Press, 1988) ISBN 0888231342.
Holes In My Cage: Poems For Young Adults (Three Trees Press,1989) ISBN 0888231474
I Want To Lasso Time (Simon & Pierre, 1991) ISBN 0889242348
Almost Unseen. (Brooks Books, 2000) ISBN 0-913719-99-4
First Light, First Shadows (Snapshot Press, 2006) ISBN 1-903543-19-3

 

Selected Anthologies
The Universe is One Poem. EDITOR (Simon and Pierre, 1990) ISBN 0889242240
There Will Always Be a Sky, editor (Nelson/Houghton Mifflin, 1993) ISBN 17-604273-3
Tanka Splendour. (AHA Books, 1997)
Global Haiku, editor (Mosaic Press, 2000) ISBN 0-88962-713-4

 

Books in Print
Creativity: A New Psychology. Wall & Emerson, 1996. ISBN: 1-895131-11-1
Five O'Clock Shadows. Letters Bookshop, 1996. ISBN: 0-921688-13-X
Flaking Paint. Underwhich Editions, 1983. ISBN: 0-88658-026-9
I Want to Lasso Time. Simon & Pierre, 1991. ISBN: 0-88924-234-8
Leaving my Loneliness. King's Road Press, 1992. ISBN: 1-895557-03-8
My Shadow Doing Something. Tiny Poems Press, 1997
The Space Between. Wind Chimes, 1986. ISBN: 0-941190-16-1
Almost Unseen. Brooks Books, 2000 ISBN 0-913719-99-4
Antologia Haiku Kanadyjskiego (Canadian Haiku Anthology), editor & Tomaszewska, E., translator (Krakow, Poland: Wydawnictswo Krytyki Artsitycznej Miniatura, 2003/Three Trees Press, 1979) ISBN 83-7081-447-6
First Light, First Shadows (Snapshot Press, 2006) ISBN 1-903543-19-3

gswede@ryerson.ca
http://home.primus.ca/~swede/

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