David Solway is the author of many books of poetry including the award-winning Modern Marriage; Bedrock; Chess Pieces; Saracen Island: The Poetry of Andreas Karavis, The Lover’s Progress: Poems after William Hogarth (illustrated by Marion Wagschal and adapted for the stage by Curtain Razors Theatre Ensemble), and Franklin’s Passage, winner of Le Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. His work has been anthologized in The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, McClelland and Stewart’s New Canadian Poetry, Border Lines: Contemporary Poetry in English from Copp Clark, and The Bedford Introduction to Literature from St. Martin’s Press. Among his prose publications, Education Lost won the QSPELL Prize for Nonfiction and Random Walks was a finalist for Le Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal. The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods was released by McGill-Queen’s in 2001. Solway publishes regularly in journals and magazines such as The Atlantic, The Sewanee Review, The Fiddlehead and Books in Canada, and is an occasional contributor to the Book Pages of the National Post. His more specialized writings have appeared in the International Journal of Applied Semiotics, Policy Options: Institute on Research in Public Policy, and the Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Solway has recently completed a new collection of poems entitled The Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat, scheduled with Goose Lane Editions for Spring 2005, and is now working on his fourth book in education and culture, entitled Reading, Riting and Rhythmitic. A collection of literary/critical essays, Director’s Cut, was released by The Porcupine’s Quill in Fall 2003. He was appointed writer-in-residence at Concordia University for 1999-2000 and is currently a contributing editor with Canadian Notes & Queries and an associate editor with Books in Canada.

Bibliography

Poetry

In My Own Image; McGill Poetry Series, 1961, Montreal.

The Crystal Theatre; Fiddlehead Books, 1971, Fredericton, N.B.

Paximalia; Fiddlehead Books, 1972, Fredericton, N.B.

The Egyptian Airforce; Fiddlehead Books, 1973, Fredericton, N.B.

The Road To Arginos; Delta Canada, 1976/77, Montreal.

Anacrusis; Fiddlehead books, 1977, Fredericton, N.B.

Twelve Sonnets; Mansfield Book Mart, 1978, Montreal.

Mephistopheles And The Astronaut; Mosaic Press, 1979, Toronto.

The Mulberry Men; Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 1982, Montreal.

Selected Poetry; Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 1982, Montreal.

Stones In Water; Mosaic Press, 1983, Toronto.

Modern Marriage; Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 1987/88, Montreal.

Bedrock; Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 1993, Montreal.

Chess Pieces, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1999, Montreal.

Saracen Island: The Poems of Andreas Karavis, Véhicule Press, Signal

Editions, 2000, Montreal.

The Lover’s Progress, The Porcupine’s Quill, 2001, Erin. (Dramatized by

Curtain Razors Theatre Group, Regina, November 21-23, 2002.)

Franklin’s Passage, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003, Montreal

and Kingston.

Poèmes choisis (trans. by Yves Gosselin), Éditions du Noroît, 2004, Montréal.

The Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat, Goose Lane Editions, 2005, Fredericton.

Forthcoming:

Climbing for Light, Véhicule Press, Signal Editions, 2006, Montreal.

The Properties of Things, The Porcupine’s Quill, 2007, Erin.

Demilunes (translation of 30 Québécois poets), Frog Hollow Press, 2005,

Victoria.

Prose

A. Books

Education Lost; OISE Press, 1989, Toronto.

The Anatomy of Arcadia (travel); Véhicule Press, 1992, Montreal.

Lying About The Wolf: Essays in Culture and Education; McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997, Montreal and Kingston.

Random Walks: Essays in Elective Criticism; McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1997, Montreal and Kingston.

An Andreas Karavis Companion; Véhicule Press, 2000, Montreal.

The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods: Liberal Studies in the Corporate Age;

McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2001, Montreal and Kingston.

Director’s Cut (literary essays); The Porcupine’s Quill, 2003, Erin.

On Being a Jew (chapbook); David Mason Books, 2003, Toronto.

Forthcoming:

Anatomie d’ Arcadie (translation), Éditions du Noroît, 2006, Montréal.

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Forthcoming:

· “Pericles as Dream” (reprint); Shakespeare Criticism, Gale.

· “The Problem of Henry VIII”; Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.

· “Revisiting Hydra Post-Chernobyl” (essay); MondoGreco.

· “Crisis and History” (essay); Books in Canada.

· “Mirabel” (review); Books in Canada.

· “Double Exile and Montreal English-Language Poetry” (revised and reprinted);

English Poetry in Quebec: 1976-2001. (in preparation)