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Canada

Dennis Cooley poems...
Was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, and raised on a farm near there. He is the author of 15 books, and the editor of 3 collections, his latest titles including passwords, a postmodern journal, and Irene, a long poem about his mother's death. He teaches at St. John's College in Manitoba. He thinks Portugal is where, when you are a poet and you die, you go to heaven.

Erín Moure (or Eirin Moure, or Erin Mouré)
Was born in Calgary, Canada, in 1955 and has lived in Montréal since 1985, where she works as a translator. Since her first book, Empire, York Street, in 1979, she has published ten books of poetry, one of selected poems, one chapbook, and several books and chapbooks of translation from French, Spanish, Portuguese and Galician into English, including her Sheep's Vigil by a Fervent Person: A transelation of Alberto Caeiro/ Fernando Pessoa's O Guardador de Rebanhos (Anansi, 2001), a finalist for the Griffin Prize and the City of Toronto Book Prize. Her most recent book of poems is O Cidadán (Anansi, 2002: finalist for the Governor General's Award for poetry) and her most recent translation is a chapbook selected from m-Talá by the Galician poet Chus Pato, which originally appeared in Galician from Xerais in Vigo, in 2000. Moure's Little Theatres will appear from Anansi in Toronto in 2005, and she is currently working on a book of poems in English rooted in and traversing the medieval Galician-Portuguese cantigas, entitled O Cadoiro.

Fred Wah
was born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, in 1939, and grew up in the Kootenay region of British Columbia. He studied music and English literature at the University of British Columbia in the early 1960s, where he was one of the founding editors of Tish. He did graduate work in literature and linguistics at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and at the State University of New York in Buffalo. He was the founding coordinator of the writing program at David Thompson University Centre and he taught in the Professional Writing Program at Selkirk College and for the Kootenay School of Writing in Nelson and Vancouver. He now teaches at the University of Calgary. He has edited a number of literary magazines, such as Open Letter, West Coast Line and SwiftCurrent, an electronic journal. He is the author of many books, including Lardeau (1965), Mountain (1967), Among (1972), Tree (1972), Pictograms from the Interior of B.C. (1975), Breathing My Name with a Sigh (1978), Loki Is Buried at Smoky Creek: Selected Poems (1980), Grasp The Sparrow's Tail (1982), Waiting for Saskatchewan (1985, Governor-General Award for Poetry), Music at the Heart of Thinking (1987), Rooftops ( 1987), Limestone Lakes Utaniki (1989), So Far (1991), Alley Alley Home Free (1992) and Diamond Grill (1996, Howard O'Hagan Award for Short Fiction).

Karen Mac Cormack
Was born in Luanshya, Zambia in 1956. She has double nationality (British and Canadian) and presently lives in Toronto. She is the author of nine books of poems, including Marine Snow (1996), The Tongue Moves Talk (1997), Fit to Print (1998, in collaboration with Alan Halsey), and most recently At Issue (2001).

Lisa Robertson
Lived in Vancouver for twenty-odd years, where she participated in the continuing utopian experiment called The Kootenay School of Writing. She has recently moved to Paris. Her books of poetry include XEclogue, Debbie: An Epic, and The Weather ( New Star Books/ Reality Street Editions). Just out from Clear Cut Press is Occasional Works and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, a linked series of essays on cities, architecture and ornament. A chapbook, Rousseau's Boat, is forthcoming from Nomados.

Nicole Brossard poems...
Was born in Montréal in 1943. Poet, novelist and essayist, twice winner of the Governor Prize for her poetry, Nicole Brossard has published more than thirty books since 1965. Many among those books have been translated into English, such as the following: Mauve Desert, The Aerial Letter, Picture Theory, Lovhers, Baroque at Dawn, The Blue Books, Installations, Museum of Bone and Water and more recently Intimate Journal and Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon. She has cofounded and codirected the literary magazine La Barre du Jour (1965-1975), has codirected the film Some American Feminists (1976) and coedited the well acclaimed Anthologie de la poésie des femmes au Québec, first published in 1991 then in 2003. She has also won le Grand Prix de Poésie du Festival international de Trois-Rivières in 1989 and in 1999. In 1991, she was attributed le Prix Athanase-David (the highest literary recognition in Québec).
She is a member of l’Académie des lettres du Québec. She won the W.O. Mitchell 2003 Prize and in 2006, she was attributed the prestigious Molson Prize of the Canada Council of Arts and was elected as a member of the Royal Society of Canada.
Her work has been widely translated into English and Spanish and her books are also available in German, Italian, Japanese, Slovenian, Romanian and in Catalan.  Guernica editions recently published a book of essays (edited by Louise Forsyth) on her work.
Nicole Brossard writes and lives in Montréal.

Robert Kroetsch poems...

Robin Blaser
Born in Denver, Colorado, 1925, holds dual citizenship in Canada and the U.S.A. Out of the "San Francisco Renaissance", he is often associated with the poets Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan. The Holy Forest, a collected poems, "Foreword" by Robert Creeley, was published in 1993. The Recovery of the Public World: A Conference and Festival in Honour of Robin Blaser, his Poetry and Poetics was held in 1995. The papers of this Conference were published in 1999. Recent work includes "Great Companion: Dante Alighieri" the keynote address for an international conference, "La presenza di Dante nella poesia contemporanea nordamericana," Pescara-Torre de' Passeri,1997, and the libretto for Sir Harrison Birtwistle's opera, The Last Supper, which premièred at the Berlin Staatsoper in April, 2000, opened in a new production at Clyndebourne, October, 2000, and has been touring in England since then.

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Steve McCaffery
Was born in Sheffield, England in 1947. He is the author of sixteen books of poetry, most recently Seven Pages Missing: Selected Texts 1969-1999, and one novel, Panopticon. In 1973 he co-founded with the late bp Nichol The Toronto Research Group and edited Rational Geomancy the collected research reports of the group (Talonbooks, 1992). His critical writings are gathered in North of Intention: Critical Writings 1973-1986 (1986) and Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics (2001). He teaches poetics, critical theory, and contemporary literature at York University, Toronto.

Steven Ross Smith
Likes to bend, confuse and disintegrate that which is most popularly straightened, clarified and constructed in general poetic and fictive practice - language, narrativity and meaning. A fiction writer, poet and sound poet, he endeavours to work against convention, especially his own. He has published eight books, including fluttertongue book 2, The Book of Emmett, Lures, and Reading My Father's Book. He also appears on various CDs and audiocassettes.

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