{"title":"Don McKay","description":"Don McKay has published eight books of poetry. Among his many awards are the Governor General's Award in 1991 (for Night Fields) and in 2000 (for Another Gravity). He was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize for Camber and was the Canadian winner in 2007 for Strike\/Slip. Born in Owen Sound, Ontario, Don McKay has been active as an editor, creative writing teacher, and university instructor, as well as a poet. He lives in Newfoundland.","products":[{"product_id":"open-wide-a-wilderness-canadian-nature-poems-paperback","title":"Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The first anthology to focus on the rich tradition of Canadian nature poetry in English, \u003ci\u003eOpen Wide a Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e is a survey of Canada's regions, poetries, histories, and peoples as these relate to the natural world. The poetic responses included here range from the heights of the sublime to detailed naturalist observation, from the perspectives of pioneers and those who work in the woods and on the sea to the dismayed witnesses of ecological destruction, from a sense of terror in confrontation with the natural world to expressions of amazement and delight at the beauty and strangeness of nature, our home. Arranged chronologically, the poems include excerpts from late-eighteenth-century colonial pioneer epics and selections from both well-known and more obscure nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers. A substantial section is devoted to contemporary writers who are working within and creating a new ecopoetic aesthetic in the early twenty-first century. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Don McKay's introductory essay, \"Great Flint Singing,\" explores in McKay's inimitable way the thorny issues of Canadian poets' representations of nature over the past 150 years. Focusing on key texts by Duncan Campbell Scott, Charles G.D. Roberts, Earle Birney, Dennis Lee, and others, the essay traces Wordsworthian influences in a New World context, celebrates Canadian poets' love of natural history observation, and finds a way through a rich and contradictory tradition to current trends in ecopoetics. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376674635999,"sku":"9781554580330","price":71.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/H_v8Knr279781554580330.webp?v=1789221662"},{"product_id":"field-marks-the-poetry-of-don-mckay-paperback","title":"Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume features thirty-five of Don McKay's best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Méira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, quirky, thoughtful, and sometimes comic self-consciousness the poems adumbrate. Included is McKay's afterword written especially for this volume in which McKay reflects on his own writing process-its relationship to the earth and to metamorphosis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Don McKay has published eight books of poetry. He won the Governor General's Award in 1991 (for \u003ci\u003eNight Field\u003c\/i\u003e) and in 2000 (for \u003ci\u003eAnother Gravity\u003c\/i\u003e), a National Magazine Award (1991), and the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry in 1984 (for \u003ci\u003eBirding, Or Desire\u003c\/i\u003e). Don McKay was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize for \u003ci\u003eCamber\u003c\/i\u003e and was the Canadian winner of the 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize for \u003ci\u003eStrike\/Slip\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Owen Sound, Ontario, McKay has been active as an editor, creative writing teacher, and university instructor, as well as a poet. He has taught at the University of Western Ontario, the University of New Brunswick, The Banff Centre, The Sage Hill Writing Experience, and the BC Festival of the Arts. He has served as editor and publisher of Brick Books since 1975 and from 1991 to 1996 as editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Fiddlehead\u003c\/i\u003e. He resides in British Columbia. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51406871920863,"sku":"9780889204942","price":23.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/L53ryo911V9780889204942.webp?v=1789574202"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/don-mckay.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}