Mary Dalton
Mary Dalton (born 1950) is a
Life and career
Mary Dalton was born in the parish of Harbour Main, Newfoundland and Labrador.[3][2]
She edited Newfoundland Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal in 1987 and was editor and co-publisher of TickleAce. A literary journal of Newfoundland and Labrador from 1980 to 1986.[4]
Dalton founded the SPARKS Literary Festival in 2009 and served also as the festival's director for the first six years. SPARKS celebrates the literary creations of Newfoundland and Labrador and showcases writers at various stages of their creative lives. It is what Dalton has called a 'word spree'".[5]
She is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's[6] and Poet Laureate of the City of St. John’s.[7][8]
Her latest collection of poems is the limited-edition letter-press chapbook Waste Ground (Running the Goat,2017), with engravings by Abigail Rorer of Massachusetts.
Awards and honors
Dalton has won various awards for her poetry, among them the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Award for Poetry in 1997, 2002 and 2006,
Bibliography
Poetry
- 1989: The Time of Icicles (Breakwater Books, 1989, 1991).
- 1993: Allowing the Light (Breakwater Books, 1993).
- 2003: Merrybegot (Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 2003; audiobook version by Rattling Books, 2005)
- 2006: Red Ledger (Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 2006).
- 2008: Between You and the Weather (Running the Goat, 2008). Wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates.
- 2013: Hooking: A Book of Centos (Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 2013).
- 2017: Waste Ground (Running the Goat, 2017). Chapbook, with wood engravings by Abigail Rorer.
Prose
- Edge: Essays, Reviews, Interviews (Palimpsest Press, 2015).
- 2022: The Vernacular Strain in Newfoundland Poetry (Breakwater Books, 2022). Text of the 2020 Pratt Lecture, delivered on March 4, 2020.
In anthologies
- Choice Atlantic: Writers of Newfoundland and the Maritimes (Breakwater Books, 1990).
- Words Out There: Women Poets in Atlantic Canada (Roseway Publishing, 1999).
- New Canadian Poetry (Fitzhenry and Whiteside 2000); the edges of time (Seraphim Editions, 1999).
- Landmarks: An Anthology of New Atlantic Canadian Poetry (The Acorn Press, 2001).
- Modern Canadian Poets: An Anthology of Poems in English, edited by Evan Jones and Todd Swift (Carcanet Press, 2010).
- The Art of the Sonnet, edited by Stephen Burt and David Mikics, Harvard University Press (The Belknap Press, 2010).
- The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2013, edited by Sue Goyette (Tightrope Books, 2013).
- The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry, edited by Mark Callanan and James Langer (2013).
- 70 Canadian Poets, edited by Gary Geddes (Oxford University Press, 2014).
- Earth and Heaven : An Anthology of Myth Poetry, edited by Amanda Jernigan and Evan Jones (Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2015).
- The Best of the Best Canadian Poetry in English, edited by Anita Lahey and Molly Peacock (Tightrope Books, 2017).[10]
References
- ^ "Profile at Memorial University of Newfoundland website". Archived from the original on 2007-06-25. Retrieved 2017-09-04.
- ^ a b "Mary Dalton | The Canadian Encyclopedia". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
- ^ Mercer, Juanita. "20 Questions with St. John's poet laureate Mary Dalton | Saltwire". www.saltwire.com. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
- ^ Department of English, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.
- ^ SPARKS Literary Festival 2019.
- ^ Memorial University. "Emeritus honours: Thirteen Memorial faculty members receive high honour". Gazette", Sept. 11, 2019.
- ^ The Telegram, Jan 31 2019.
- ^ "Poet Laureate | City Of St. John's". www.stjohns.ca. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
- ^ "Mary Dalton". ATLANTIC CANADIAN POETS' ARCHIVE. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
- ^ Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador
External links
- "Mary Dalton celebrates the language and culture of Newfoundland" CBC Radio,Feb 01, 2016
- "Edge: Essays, Reviews and Interviews is a new collection from poet Mary Dalton", CBC Radio, 2015
- [1] Archived 2014-12-15 at the Wayback Machine
- John Barton, "Like the Star-Nosed Mole: John Barton in Conversation with Mary Dalton on Her Cento Variations". Malahat Review online
- Barbara Nickel, "'There's a Carnival for You': An Interview with Mary Dalton. Vehicule Press online
- Brian Palmu, " 'Highlight Reel': On the found poetry of Mary Dalton's Hooking". maisonneuve. March 18, 2014]
- "Mary Dalton". Heritage Newfoundland and Labrador
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