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Francis Sparshott was born in England on May 19, 1926. He has an M.A. from Oxford University. He came to Canada in 1950, and taught Philosophy at Victoria College, University of Toronto, from 1955 to 1991. He has been a member of the League of Canadian Poets since 1968, and was president from 1977 to 1979.
Awards
President’s Medal for Best Single Poem, University of Western Ontario, 1958.
CBC Radio Literary Competition, first prize, poetry, 1981.

Selected Publications
A Divided Voice. (Oxford University Press, 1965).
A Cardboard Garage. (Clarke Irwin, 1968).
The Naming of the Beasts. (Black Moss Press, 1979).
The Cave of Trophonius and Other Poems. (Brick Books, 1983).
The Hanging Gardens of Etobicoke. (Childe Thursday, 1983, 1994).
Storms and Screens. (Childe Thursday, 1985).
Sculling to Byzantium. (Childe Thursday, 1989).
Views From the Zucchini Gazebo. (Childe Thursday, 1994).
Home from the Air. (Childe Thursday, 1997).
The Future of Aesthetics. (University of Toronto Press, 1998).

Selected Anthologies
The Poets of Canada. (Hurtig Publishers, 1978).
The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English. (Oxford University Press, 1982).
The Norton Introduction to Literature, 4th ed. (Norton, 1986).

Books in Print
Sparshott, Francis
Home from the Air. Childe Thursday, 1997. ISBN: 0-920459-43-9.
Sculling to Byzantium. Childe Thursday, 1989. $7.50 ISBN: 0-920459-17-X.
Storms and Screens. Childe Thursday, 1985. $6.50 ISBN: 0-920459-05-6.
Taking Life Seriously: A Study of the Nichomachean Ethics. University of Toronto Press, 1994. $60.00 ISBN: 0-8020-2953-1.
The Cave of Trophonius and Other Poems. Brick Books, 1983. $7.50 ISBN: 0-919626-22-X.
The Hanging Gardens of Etobicoke (2nd ed.). Childe Thursday, 1994. $7.50 ISBN: 0-920459-36-6.
Views From the Zucchini Gazebo. Childe Thursday, 1994. $8.50 ISBN: 0-920459-37-4.




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