Wayde Compton
Wayde Compton (born 1972) is a
Vancouver, British Columbia
.
Compton has published books of poetry, essays, and fiction, and he edited the first comprehensive anthology of black writing from British Columbia. He co-founded Commodore Books with
Creative Writing at Douglas College
.
In 1996 he penned the semi-
Bibliography
Anthologies
- Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature (2001)
- The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them (with Renee Sarojini Saklikar) (2015)
Fiction
- The Outer Harbour: Stories (2014)
Graphic fiction
- The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration (illustrated by April dela Noche Milne) (2019)
Non-fiction
- After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region (2010)
- Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics (2024)
Poetry
- 49th Parallel Psalm (1999)
- Performance Bond (2004)
See also
References
- ^ Clarke, George Elliott, Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature, University of Toronto Press, 2002, p. 229.
- ^ Compton, Wayde, Performance Bond, Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 2004, p. 15.
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