Tom Wayman - biography, career, poetry
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TOM WAYMAN was born in 1945 in Hawkesbury, Ontario, a pulp mill town on the Ottawa River. When he was 7 his family moved to Prince Rupert, a fishing and pulp mill town on the B.C. coast just south of the Alaska Panhandle. Wayman’s father was a pulp mill chemist. In 1959, the family moved to Vancouver, B.C., where Wayman finished high school, and attended the University of B.C. He graduated in 1966 with a B.A. in Honors English. During his undergraduate years Wayman worked as a journalist on the Vancouver Sun, and on the UBC student newspaper The Ubyssey (of which he was editor-in-chief in 1965-66).
In 1966 Wayman went to southern California for graduate work, receiving an M.F.A. in English and writing from the University of California at Irvine. He subsequently worked at a range of manual and academic jobs in Colorado, Ontario, Michigan, and Alberta, as well as British Columbia. He has been writer-in-residence at the University of Windsor, University of Alberta, Simon Fraser University, University of Winnipeg and most recently (1996) University of Toronto. His latest teaching stints were for Okanagan University College in Vernon and Kelowna, B.C. (1990-91, and 1992-95) and the Kootenay School of the Arts in Nelson, B.C. (1991-92, and 1995-present) .
Wayman has published thirteen collections of his poems, most recently Did I Miss Anything? Selected Poems 1973-93 (1993) and The Astonishing Weight of the Dead (1994). A collection of his essays was published in 1983, and another, A Country Not Considered: Canada, Culture, Work, appeared in 1993. A play of his, The Parts Yard, was produced in the 1984 DuMaurier Festival of Plays in Vancouver.
As well, Wayman edits anthologies, most recently East of Main: An Anthology of Poems From East Vancouver (with Calvin Wharton; 1989) and Paperwork, an anthology of contemporary U.S. and Canadian poems about daily employment (1991). For many years Wayman was interested in people writing about their own workplace experiences, and about how their jobs affect their lives after work. He is a co-founder of the Vancouver Industrial Writers’ Union, a work-writing circle, and has participated in a number of labor arts ventures.
Since 1989 Wayman has been the Squire of "Appledore", an estate in the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern B.C. He raises flowers and vegetables, which he tries to keep the deer from eating. He drives a Nissan Pathfinder 4 x 4, which he enjoys very much. He likes to cross-country ski, and his canoe is an Old Town Discovery 16. In summer he occasionally can be found paddling slowly up Slocan Lake or the Slocan River.
Collections of Poems
* Waiting For Wayman (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1973) 111 pages
* For And Against The Moon (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1974) 159 pages
* Money And Rain (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1975) 150 pages
* Free Time (Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1977) 128 pages
* Living On The Ground (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1980) 119 pages
* Introducing Tom Wayman: Selected Poems 1973-80 (Princeton, NJ: Ontario
* Review Press, 1980) 134 pages
* The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (Saskatoon: Thistledown Press, 1981) 101 pages
* Counting The Hours (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1983) 160 pages
* In a Small House on the Outskirts of Heaven (Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour Publishing, 1989) 129 pages
* Did I Miss Anything? Selected Poems 1973-1993 (Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour Publishing, 1993) 222 pages
* The Astonishing Weight of the Dead (Vancouver: Polestar, 1994) 164 pages
* I’ll Be Right Back: New and Selected Poems 1980-1996 (Princeton, NJ: Ontario Review Press, 1997) 183 pages
* The Colours of the Forest (Harbour Publishing, 1999) 158 pages
* The Dominion of love : an anthology of Canadian love poems / edited by Tom Wayman. Madeira Park, B.C. : Harbour Pub., c2001. 159 p.
* My father’s cup. Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing, c2002. 126 p.
Edited Collections
* Beaton Abbot’s Got The Contract, an anthology of working poems (Edmonton:
* NeWest Press, 1974) 64 pages
* A Government Job At Last, an anthology of working poems (Vancouver: MacLeod Books, 1976) 176 pages
* Going For Coffee, poetry on the job (Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour Publishing, 1981; 2nd edition, 1987) 209 pages
* East of Main: An Anthology of Poems from East Vancouver (co-edited with Calvin Wharton; Vancouver: Pulp Press, 1989) 162 pages
* Paperwork, contemporary poems from the job (Madeira Park, B.C.: Harbour Publishing, 1991) 313 pages
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