Tom Wayman

He holds Associate Professor Emeritus of English status from the University of Calgary, where he taught 2002–2010. In 2007 he was the Fulbright Visiting Chair in creative writing at Arizona State University, and has also taught at Colorado State University and Wayne State University. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of Windsor, University of Alberta, Simon Fraser University, University of Winnipeg and University of Toronto. For decades, Wayman has had a particular interest in people writing about their own workplace experiences, including how their jobs affect their lives off work. Besides editing a number of anthologies of work poems, and publishing critical essays on the various dimensions of work-based literature, he was a co-founder of the Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union (1979-1993), a work-writing circle, and has participated in a number of labor arts ventures. In 2015 Wayman was named by the Vancouver Public Library a Vancouver Literary Landmark, with a plaque on the city's Commercial Drive commemorating his contribution to Vancouver's literary heritage based on his championing of work writing in the 1970s and 1980s. He is a director of the Calgary Spoken Word Festival Society (board president 2003–2012), and of Nelson's Kootenay Literary Society (secretary since 2011), where he serves on the education committee and the Elephant Mountain Literary Festival organizing committee. He helped to found The Kootenay School of Writing. In 2022 Wayman received British Columbia's George Woodcock Award for Lifetime Achievement in the literary arts.

• Waiting for Wayman (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973) • For and Against the Moon (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1974) • Money and Rain (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1975) • Free Time (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1977) • A Planet Mostly Sea (Winnipeg: Turnstone, 1979) • Living on the Ground (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1980) • Introducing Tom Wayman: Selected Poems 1973-80 (Princeton, N.J.: Ontario Review P, 1980) • The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (Saskatoon: Thistledown, 1981) • Counting the Hours (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1983) • The Face of Jack Munro (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1986) • In a Small House on the Outskirts of Heaven (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1989) • Did I Miss Anything? Selected Poems 1973-1993 (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1993) • The Astonishing Weight of the Dead (Vancouver: Polestar, 1994) • I'll Be Right Back: New and Selected Poems 1980-1996 (Princeton, N.J.: Ontario Review P, 1997) • The Colours of the Forest (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1999) • My Father's Cup (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 2002) • High Speed Through Shoaling Water (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 2007) • Dirty Snow (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour 2012) • Winter's Skin (Fernie, BC: Oolichan, 2013) • Built to Take It: Selected Poems 1996-2013 (Spokane, WA: Lynx House, 2014) • The Order in Which We Do Things: The Poetry of Tom Wayman (selected and with an introduction by Owen Percy; Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014)

• Woodstock Rising (Toronto: Dundurn, 2009)

• Boundary Country (Saskatoon: Thistledown, 2007) • A Vain Thing (Winnipeg: Turnstone, 2007) • The Shadows We Mistake for Love (Madeira Park, BC: Douglas & McIntyre, 2015)

• Beaton Abbot's Got The Contract: An Anthology of Working Poems (Edmonton: NeWest, 1974) • A Government Job at Last: An Anthology of Working Poems (Vancouver: MacLeod, 1976) • Going For Coffee: Poetry on the Job (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1981) • East of Main: An Anthology of Poems from East Vancouver (co-edited with Calvin Wharton; Vancouver: Pulp, 1989) • Paperwork: Contemporary Poems from the Job (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour, 1991) • The Dominion of Love: An Anthology of Canadian Love Poems (Madeira Park, BC:Harbour, 2001)