Brian Henderson (poet)
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Brian Henderson is a Canadian writer and poet whose book of poetry Nerve Language was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2007.
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[edit] Biography
Brian Henderson, born in Kitchener Ontario in 1948, has a PhD in Canadian Literature from York University. He has published many articles and reviews, and is also the Director of Wilfrid Laurier University Press and a photographer. Henderson has worked as a university instructor, a phone jack installer, a traffic counter, a shipper/receiver, and a rock drummer.
He is the author of eight collections of poetry and a deck of visual poem-cards. His work has been published in many small magazines. In the 1970s Henderson was a founding editor of RUNE.
He lives with his wife, Charlene, son, Adrian and step son, Sean.
[edit] Literary activities
His poetry and literary criticism has appeared in Arc, Antigonish Review, Canadian Forum, Canadian Literature, CVII, Descant, ECW, The fiddlehead, Prism, Quarry, Rampike, Rune (of which he was a founding editor for its decade of existence), Scrivener and Writ since 1974.
[edit] Published works
Books:
- Nerve Language, Pedlar Press, 2007
- Light in Dark Objects, Ekstasis Editions, 2000
- Year Zero, Brick Books, 1995
- Smoking Mirror, ECW Press, 1990
- The Alphamiricon, Underwhich Editions, 1987
- Migration of Light, General Publishing, 1983
- The Veridical Book of the Silent Planet, Aya Press, 1978
- Paracelsus, Porcupine�s Quill, 1977
- The Expanding Room, Black Moss Press, 1977
Anthologies:
- W.H. New, ed., Inside the Poem, Oxford University Press, 1992
- Robert Allen, ed., The Lyric Paragraph, D.C. Books, 1987
- Leslie Nutting, ed., The Toronto Collection, Manoeuvers Press, 1984
- Ken Norris, Twenty Canadian Poets of the Eighties, Anansi, 1984
