David Solway

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 and a collection of literary/critical essays, Director's Cut, appeared with The Porcupine's Quill in Fall 2003. A new collection of poems, The Pallikari of Nesmine Rifat, was released by Goose Lane Editions in Spring 2005. Solway publishes regularly in journals and magazines such as The Atlantic, The Sewanee Review, The Fiddlehead and Books in Canada, and has been 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. Appointed writer-in-residence at Concordia University for 1999-2000, Solway is currently a contributing editor with Canadian Notes & Queries and an associate editor with Books in Canada. He is now working on his fourth book in education and culture, entitled Reading, Riting and Rhythmitic.

''David Solway is one of the most significant poets writing in Canada today. I know of no other poet who comes up to his knowledge of the craft or his devotion to the craft'', Irving Layton.

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