Robyn Sarah - biography, career, poetry
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Robyn Sarah is the author of several poetry collections, including The Touchstone: Poems New and Selected (1992) and Questions About The Stars (1998), as well as two collections of short stories. A new collection of poems, A Day’s Grace (2003), has just been released by The Porcupine’s Quill.
Born in New York City in 1949 to Canadian parents, she grew up in Montreal, where she still lives. She is a graduate of the Conservatoire de Musique et d’Art Dramatique du Québec, where she studied clarinet, and of McGill University, where she honoured in philosophy. Her poems began appearing in Canadian periodicals in the early 1970s, while she completed an M.A. in English.
In 1976, with Fred Louder, she co-founded a small literary press, Villeneuve Publications, and co-edited its limited-edition poetry chapbook series which included first titles by August Kleinzahler, A.F. Moritz and Bruce Taylor, as well as her own second collection, The Space Between Sleep and Waking. She taught English at Champlain Regional College for 20 years, and since the mid-1990s has been a frequent contributor to Canadian newspapers, including The Globe and Mail, The Gazette (Montreal), and The National Post--writing book reviews and op-ed columns on education, literacy, language, and a variety of other topics. Her monthly column on poetry, Poetic License, ran in The Gazette from fall 2000 to fall 2001.
Her poems, stories, and essays have been published widely in Canada and (since 1993) in numerous U.S. publications, including Poetry, The Hudson Review, The Threepenny Review, New England Review, North American Review, the Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review and Quarterly West.
Books & Chapbooks : Poetry
A Day’s Grace , The Porcupine’s Quill, 2003
Questions About The Stars, Brick Books, 1998
111 pages ISBN 0-919626-96-3
The Touchstone: Poems New and Selected, Anansi Press, Concord, Ontario, 1992
141 pages ISBN 0-88784-528-2
Becoming Light, Cormorant Books, Dunvegan, Ontario, 1987
40 pages ISBN 0-920-953-22-0
Anyone Skating On That Middle Ground, Véhicule Press, Montreal, 1984
53 pages ISBN 0-919890-64-4
Three Sestinas, Villeneuve Publications, 1984
ISBN 0-920288-12-X
The Space Between Sleep and Waking, Villeneuve Publications, Montreal, 1981
35 pages ISBN 0-920288-08-1
Shadowplay, Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1978
44 pages ISBN 0-920110-68-1
Books : Fiction
Promise of Shelter short stories in The Porcupine’s Quill,1997
128 pages ISBN 0-88984-192-6
A Nice Gazebo short stories,Véhicule Press, 1992
118 pages ISBN 1-55065-034-3
Anthologies: Poetry
Gifts: Poems for Parents,ed. Tregebov, Sumach Press 2002
2 poems ISBN 1-894549
15 Canadian Poets x 3 ed. Geddes Oxford (Canada), 2001
8 poems ISBN 0-19-541643-0
Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Writing Thinking, ed. Keesbury 2001
(and) Poetry: An Introduction, ed. Meyers Bedford, St Martin’s, 2001
1 poem ISBN 0-312-25076-2
New Life in Dark Seas: Brick Books 25, ed. Dragland 2000
1 poem ISBN 1-894078-10-1
Following the Plough: Recovering the Rural 2000 Black Moss Press 2 poems ISBN 0-88753-338-8
Co-incidences: Poètes anglophones du Québec 2000 trans. Pierre DesRuisseaux Triptyque 6 poems ISBN 2-89031-365-4
Passeport: La Poésie Moderne de Langue Anglaise 1998 au Canada, trans. Émile Martel Écrits des Forges (Québec) 4 poems ISBN 1-896239-43-9
Anthology of Magazine Verse & Yearbook 1996 of American Poetry 1995/1996 ed. Pater, Monitor Book Co. (USA) 1 poem
Poetry Alive: Reflections 1993 Copp Clark Pitman (Longman) 1 poem ISBN 0-7730-5167-8
Poetry by Canadian Women 1989 ed. Sullivan Oxford (Canada) 3 poems, 5 pages ISBN 0-19-540688-5
The Other Language 1989 ed. Farkas, The Muses’ Co., Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec 3 poems, 4 pages ISBN 19-5406559, 0919754-25-1
15 Canadian Poets x 2 1988 ed. Geddes Oxford (Canada) 11 poems, 15 pages ISBN 19-5406559
Antología de la Poesía AngloCanadiense Contemporánea 1985 ed. Amelia Romero, trans. Bernd Dietz Los Libros de la Frontera, Barcelona 2 poems, 12 pages (bilingual text) ISBN 84-85709-41-1
The New Canadian Poets, 1970-1985 1985 ed. Dennis Lee McClelland & Steward, Canada 3 poems, 4 pages ISBN 0-7710-5216-2
Canadian Poetry Now 1984 ed. Norris Anansi, Canada 6 poems, 10 pages ISBN 0-88784-138-4
Full Moon 1983 ed. Laduke, Luxton Quadrant Editions 3 poems, 5 pages ISBN 0-86495-028-4
The Inner Ear 1982 ed. Geddes Quadrant Editions, Ontario 7 poems, 19 pages ISBN 0-86495-021-7
Cross/Cut: Contemporary English Quebec Poetry 1982 ed. Norris, Van Toorn Véhicule Press 3 poems, 3 pages ISBN 0-919890-38-5, 0-919890-39-3
Aurora: New Canadian Writing Doubleday Canada 1 poem, 3 pages ISBN 0-385-15771-1 1980
Anthologies : Fiction
Contemporary Jewish Writing in Canada (2004) ed. Greenstein, Dunham University of Nebraska Press one story
Not Quite Mainstream: Canadian Jewish Short Stories 2002 ed. Ravvin Red Deer Press one story, 9 pages ISBN 0-88995-246-9
A Room at the Heart of Things 1998 ed. Harvor Véhicule Press one story, 6 pages ISBN 1-55065-094-7
Future Tense: New English Fiction from Quebec 1997 ed. Beauchemin, Roig Véhicule Press one story, 9 pages ISBN 1-55065-085-8
The Journey Prize Anthology (6th) 1993 selected with Douglas Glover McClelland & Stewart one story, 26 pages ISBN 0-7710-4429-1
Pens of Many Colours, ed. Karpinski, Lea 1993 HBJ-Holt one story, 8 pages ISBN 0-7747-3146-X
Telling Differences: New English Fiction from Quebec 1989 ed. Linda Leith Véhicule Press one story, 5 pages ISBN 0-919890-89-X
More Stories by Canadian Women ed. Sullivan Oxford Canada, 1987 one story, 10 pages ISBN 0-19-540636-2
Best Canadian Stories 1986 1986 ed. Helwig, Martin Oberon Press, Ottawa one story, 14 pages ISBN 0-99750-638-0HC, 0-88750-639-9SC
Fatal Recurrences ed. Hood, O’Brien; Véhicule Press 1985 one story, 10 pages ISBN 0-919891-65-2
Metavisions ed. Hancock, Quadrant Editions 1984 one story, l4 pages ISBN 0-86495-025-X
Anthologies: Essays
The Antioch Review: Anniversary Issue 2001 Vol 59, No 2 Sixtieth Anniversary ed. Fogarty one essay, 22 pages
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