John Newlove (poet)
John Newlove (June 13, 1938 – December 23, 2003) was a Canadian poet who was considered to be one of the dominant voices of prairie poetry, though he lived most of his adult life in British Columbia and Ontario.
Life
Born in
He came to prominence in the 1960s as various collections of his poetry were published to critical acclaim. He left Vancouver in May 1967 and took his family to
Various writer-in-residence stints followed his 1974 departure from McCelland and Stewart, including at
His 1986 collection, The Night the Dog Smiled, was short-listed for that year's English language poetry Governor General's Award, and he won the 1984 Saskatchewan Writers' Guild Founders Award.
Newlove suffered a stroke in 2001 and died in 2003.
Newlove was the subject of two documentaries: New Canadian Writers: John Newlove (1971) which was broadcast on
Bibliography
- Grave Sirs: Poems (1962)
- Elephants, Mothers & Others (1963)
- Moving in Alone (1965)
- "Notebook Pages" (1966)
- "What They Say" (1967)
- Black Night Window (1968)
- The Cave (1970)
- Lies (1972), winner of the 1972 Governor General's Award for Poetry
- The Fat Man: Selected Poems (1962–1972) (1977)
- The Green Plain (1981)
- The Night the Dog Smiled (1986), nominated for a 1986 Governor General's Award and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Apology for Absence: Selected Poems 1962–1992 (1993)
- A Long Continual Argument: The Selected Poems of John Newlove (2007)