Brian Henderson
Brian Henderson (born 1948) is a Canadian writer, poet, and photographer, whose book of poetry Nerve Language was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2007.
Brian Henderson
- Born
- 1948
- Nationality
- Canada
- Occupation
- photographer · poet · writer
- Education
- York University
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Brian Henderson (born 1948) is a Canadian writer, poet, and photographer, whose book of poetry Nerve Language was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2007.
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Biography
Biography
Henderson, born in 1948 in Kitchener, Ontario, has a PhD in Canadian Literature from York University. Henderson has worked as a university instructor, a phone jack installer, a traffic counter, a shipper/receiver, and a rock drummer. He is the author of thirteen collections of poetry including The Alphamiricon, a deck of visual poem-cards. His work has been published in many small magazines. In the 1970s Henderson was a founding editor of RUNE. He was the director of Wilfrid Laurier University Press from 2005-2016.
Literary activities
Literary activities
His poetry and literary criticism has appeared in Arc Poetry Magazine, Antigonish Review, Canadian Forum, Canadian Literature, CVII, Descant, ECW, The Fiddlehead, Prism, Quarry, Rampike, RUNE (of which he was a founding editor for its decade of existence), Scrivener, Writ and many other literary journals since 1974.
Nominations
Nominations
• Governor General's Award for Poetry, 2007, finalist (for Nerve Language) • Canadian Author’s Association Award for Poetry, 2012, finalist (for Sharawadji) • Raymond Souster Award, 2020, longlisted
Published works
Books: • Unfinishing, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 • Unidentified Poetic Object, Brick Books, 2019 • [OR], Talonbooks, 2014 • Sharawadji, Brick Books, 2011 • Nerve Language, Pedlar Press, 2007 • Light in Dark Objects, Ekstasis Editions, 2000 • Year Zero, Brick Books, 1995 • Smoking Mirror, ECW Press, 1990 • The Alphamiricon, Underwhich Editions, 1987; available on Ubu.com/visual poetry • Migration of Light, General Publishing, 1983 • The Veridical Book of the Silent Planet, Aya Press, 1978 • Paracelsus, Porcupine's Quill, 1977 • The Expanding Room, Black Moss Press, 1977 Anthologies: • W.H. New, ed., Inside the Poem, Oxford University Press, 1992 • Robert Allen, ed., The Lyric Paragraph, D.C. Books, 1987 • Leslie Nutting, ed., The Toronto Collection, Manoeuvers Press, 1984 • Ken Norris, Twenty Canadian Poets of the Eighties, Anansi, 1984
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- 1.Canadian Poetry Online University of Toronto Libraries Brian Henderson. canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca.
- 2.About Brian Henderson.
- 3.About Brian Henderson.
- 4.Henderson, Brian. Unfinishing. McGill-Queen's University Press. 2022-04-15. 978-0-2280-1149-1.
- 5.Unidentified Poetic Object. Quill and Quire. 2019-07-11.
- 6.Whiteman, Bruce. Poetry that does for science what the Modernists did for cultural history. The Toronto Star. 2019-05-16. 0319-0781.
- 7.Trainor, Kim. Like the Codex Seraphinianus: Unidentified Poetic Object by Brian Henderson. Arc Poetry. 2020-09-12.
- 8.On Writing, with Brian Henderson. Open Book Toronto.
- 9.UbuWeb Visual Poetry: Brian Henderson. www.ubu.com.
- 10.About Brian Henderson.
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