Don McKay
Biography
Don McKay is an award-winning Canadian poet, editor, and educator.
McKay was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned his PhD in 1971.
He taught creative writing and English for 27 years in universities including the University of Western Ontario and the University of New Brunswick.
In June 2007, he won the Griffin Poetry Prize for Strike/Slip (2006).
He is the co-founder and manuscript reader for Brick Books, one of Canada's leading poetry presses, and was editor of the literary journal The Fiddlehead from 1991-96.
In 2008, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
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- Country
- Canada
- Gender
- Male
- Education
- University of Wales
- Place of birth
- Ontario
- Birth date
- 25 June 2025
- Nationality
- Canadian
- Member of the Order of Canada
Books
Forgotten voices
Don M. McKay
In 1972, a team of academics and archivists from the imperial war museum set about the momentous task of tracing ordinary men and women who lived through one of the most harrowing periods in modern history, the first world war.
Josephine's choices
Don M. McKay
Another way
Don M. McKay
Josephine remembers, and other stories
Don M. McKay
Lurch
Don McKay
Paradoxides
Don McKay
Multi-award-winning poet don mckay returns with a startling collection of new poems, his first since his griffin poetry prize winning book, strike/slip don mckay is known, among other things, as canada's foremost poet .
The shell of the tortoise
Don McKay
The Muskwa assemblage
Don McKay
"in august 2006," writes don mckay in his introduction, "a group of artists working in different media, and out of a variety of traditions, assembled in the muskwa-kechika wilderness of northern british columbia.
Field Marks
Don McKay
This volume features thirty-five of don mckay's best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by meira cook that probes wilderness and representation in mckay, and the canny, quirky, thoughtful, and sometimes comic self-consciousness .
Strike/Slip
Don Mckay
In this extraordinary collection from one of our most celebrated poets, don mckay walks the strike-slip fault between poetry and landscape, sticks its strange nose into the cold silence of geologic time, meditates on marble, quartz and gneiss, and attends.
Field Marks
Don McKay
This volume features thirty-five of don mckay's best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by meira cook that probes wilderness and representation in mckay, and the canny, quirky, thoughtful, and sometimes comic self-consciousness .
Deactivated West 100
Don McKay
Vis a Vis
Don McKay
Deactivated West 100
Don McKay
Camber
Don McKay
The poetry of don mckay is renowned for its piquant wit, lyric emotion, and pitch-perfect vernacular music.
Five ways to lose your way
Don McKay
Chamber
Don Mckay
The poetry of don mckay is renowned for its piquant wit, lyric emotion, and pitch-perfect vernacular music.
Vis à vis
Don McKay
Another gravity
Don McKay
From one of canada’s most acclaimed poets and the winner of the governor general’s award for poetry.
Book of moonlight
Don McKay
Aria
Don McKay
Mr. Haeusler's amazing bicycles.
Don McKay
Another gravity
Don McKay
From one of canada’s most acclaimed poets and the winner of the governor general’s award for poetry.
Rip Rap
Don Mckay
In this second collection from the banff centre's writing studio program, forty-one accomplished writers share some of the poetry and fiction that grew from their banff writing experience.
Rip-rap
Don Mckay
In this second collection from the banff centre's writing studio program, forty-one accomplished writers share some of the poetry and fiction that grew from their banff writing experience.
Apparatus
Don McKay
“there’s a place / between desire and memory, some back porch / we can neither wish for nor recall,” writes don mckay in apparatus.
Night field
Don McKay
Night field
Don McKay
Birding, or desire
Don McKay
This extraordinary book is a celebration –of the quirky plenitude of nature, and of the deep rhythms of family life.
Lightning ball bait
Don McKay
Lependu
Don McKay
A prose/poetry sequence concerning the hanged man of london, ontario, by the award-winning author of birding, or desire; sanding down this rocking chair on a windy night; night field; apparatus and another gravity..
Long Sault
Don McKay
Air occupies space
Don McKay
Moccasins on concrete ; poems
Don McKay
Moccasins on concrete
Don McKay
Lightning ball bait
Don McKay
United States and France
Donald C. McKay
Essays in the history of modern Europe
Donald C. McKay
National workshops
Donald C. McKay
Essays in the history of modern Europe
Donald C. McKay
United States and France.
Donald C. McKay
United States and France
Donald C. McKay
Essays in the history of modern Europe
Donald C. McKay
National workshops
Donald C. McKay
Electrification associated with freezing water drops.
Donald C. McKay
Essays in the history of modern Europe
Donald Cope McKay
Essays in the history of modern Europe
Donald Cope McKay
National workshops
Donald Cope McKay
National Workshops
Donald Cope McKay
National workshops
Donald Cope McKay
Bacterial deamination.
Donald D. McKay
Disseminated intravascular coagulation
Donald G. McKay
Creative teaching in early childhood education
Donald K. McKay
Christianity in a mechanistic universe
Donald MacCrimmon McKay
Sanctuary
Donald McKay
Lumberjacks
Donald McKay
The 19th century spawned a unique breed of men who took pride in their woodsmen skills and rough codes of conduct.
Lumberjacks
Donald McKay
The 19th century spawned a unique breed of men who took pride in their woodsmen skills and rough codes of conduct.
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