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John Newlove (1938- )
John Newlove was born in Regina and raised in eastern Saskatchewan farming communities,
notably Kamsack. He attended the University of Saskatoon for one year before
embarking on extensive travel in Canada, where his signature
iconoclasm has taken him across Canada in many capacities, among them as a
high school teacher in Birtle, Manitoba, as a social worker in Yorkton, Sask.,
in radio in Weyburn and Regina, and as a clerk
at the U.B.C. bookstore. He has also been writer-in-residence at various universities
including Loyola College, Montreal, and the University of Toronto. Between 1970
and 1974 he was an editor with McClelland & Stewart. He was also a
writing instructor at David Thompson University Centre in Nelson, B.C. and,
most recently, an editor with the Federal Commission of Official Languages
in Ottawa. His first two books of poetry, Grave sirs (1962) and Elephants
mothers and others (1963) were also considerable small press design
achievements (by Robert Reid and Takao Tanabe). Moving in alone (1965),
published by Contact Press in their impressive final half decade, was followed
by What they say (1967), Black night window (1968), The
cave (1970), Lies (1972/Governor General's Award), The fat man: selected
poems 1962-1972 (1977), The green plain (1981), The night the dog smiled
(1986) and Apology for absence: Selected poems 1962-1992 (1993).
He also edited the McClelland & Stewart anthology Canadian poetry:
the modern era (1977).
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