Barry Dempster - biography, career, poetry
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Barry Dempster was born in Scarborough, Ontario, and was educated in child psychology. He has worked at both the Children’s Aid and the Queen Street Mental Health Centre in Toronto. For six years, he was Poetry and Reviews Editor for Poetry Canada. Currently, he works as an editor for Brick Books. He lives in Holland Landing, Ontario with his wife, Karen, where he runs a film series and two book groups.
Books & Chapbooks
* Tributaries: Writer to Writer (poetry, editor, 112 pages). Mosaic Press, Oakville 1978
* Fables for Isolated Men (poetry, 82 pages). Guernica Editions, Montreal 1982
* Globe Doubts (poetry, 55 pages). Quarry Press, Kingston 1983
* Real Places and Imaginary Men (short stories, 174 pages). Oberon Press, Ottawa 1984
* David and the Daydreams (children’s fiction, 143 pages). Guernica Editions, Montreal 1985
* Writing Home (short stories, 191 pages). Oberon Press, Ottawa 1989
* Positions To Pray In (poetry, 94 pages). Guernica Editions, Montreal 1989
* The Unavoidable Man (poetry, 75 pages). Quarry Press, Kingston 1990
* Letters from a Long Illness with the World, the D.H. Lawrence Poems (poetry, 56 pages). Brick Books, London, Ontario 1993
* The Ascension of Jesse Rapture (novel, 258 pages). Quarry Press, Kingston 1993
* Fire and Brimstone (poetry, 78 pages). Empyreal Press, Montreal 1997
* The Salvation of Desire (poetry, 48 pages). St. Thomas Press, Toronto 2000
* Living Well (poetry, 100 pages). Poppy Press, Victoria 2003
Poems in Anthologies
* 80: Best Canadian Stories (short stories). Oberon Press, 1980
* Third Impressions (short stories). Oberon Press 1982
* Canadian Poetry Now: 20 Poets of the 80s (poetry). Anansi, 1984
* And Other Travels(poetry). Moonstone Press, 1988
* Christian Poetry in Canada (poetry). ECW Press, 1989
* More Garden Varieties Two (poetry). The Mercury Press, 1990
* The Oberon Reader (short stories). HarperCollins, 1991
* Vintage 95 (poetry). Quarry Press, 1996
* We All Begin in a Little Magazine, Arc and the Promise of Canada’s Poets 1978-1998 (poetry). Carleton/Arc, 1998
* A Matter of Spirit, Recovery of the Sacred in Contemporary Canadian Poetry (poetry). Ekstasis Editions, 1998
* I Want to Be the Poet of Your Kneecaps, Poems of Quirky Romance (poetry). Black Moss Press, 1999
* New Life in Dark Seas: Brick Books 25 (poetry). Brick Books, 2000
* Henry’s Creature, Poems and Stories on the Automobile (poetry). Black Moss Press, 2000
* Why I Sing the Blues, Lyrics and Poems (poetry). Smoking Lung Press, 2001
* Smaller Than God, Words of Spiritual Longing (poetry). Black Moss Press, 2001
* Larger Than Life (poetry). Black Moss Press, 2002
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