Brian Henderson - biography, career, poetry
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Born in Kitchener Ontario in 1948, Brian Henderson has a PhD in Canadian Literature from York University and is the author of eight collections of poetry, including a deck of visual poem-cards. He has published many articles and reviews, and much poetic work in many literary magazines such as 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. He has been a drummer in a rock and roll band, and an occasional teacher. He has worked in educational publishing for most of his career but recently has become the director of Wilfrid Laurier University Press. He has two children from a previous relationship, and at last lives with the love of his life.
Books & Chapbooks
* 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, 1978, Aya Press
* Paracelsus, Porcupine’s Quill, 1977
* The Expanding Room, Black Moss Press, 1977
Poems in 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
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