McGill University

Nyla Matuk is a Canadian poet. She is the author of two collections, Sumptuary Laws (2012) and Stranger (2016), and a chapbook, Oneiric (2009). Her poems have appeared in a number of magazines and literary journals in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., including The New Yorker, Poetry, PN Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Walrus, Canadian Notes and Queries, and The Literary Review of Canada. In addition, her work has been anthologized in The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2012 and New Poetries VI, published by Carcanet Press in the U.K. Poems were shortlisted for the 2012 Walrus Poetry Prize and Sumptuary Laws was nominated for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for a best first book of poetry. In 2018, she was the Mordecai Richler Writer in Residence at McGill University.

Bibliography

Oneiric (Frog Hollow Press, 2009)
Sumptuary Laws (Véhicule Press, 2012)
Stranger (Véhicule Press, 2016)

Nyla Matuk is a Canadian poet. She is the author of two collections, Sumptuary Laws (2012) and Stranger (2016), and a chapbook, Oneiric (2009). Her poems have appeared in a number of magazines and literary journals in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K., including The New Yorker, Poetry, PN Review, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Walrus, Canadian Notes and Queries, and The Literary Review of Canada. In addition, her work has been anthologized in The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2012 and New Poetries VI, published by Carcanet Press in the U.K. Poems were shortlisted for the 2012 Walrus Poetry Prize and Sumptuary Laws was nominated for the League of Canadian Poets’ Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for a best first book of poetry. In 2018, she was the Mordecai Richler Writer in Residence at McGill University.

Bibliography

Oneiric (Frog Hollow Press, 2009)
Sumptuary Laws (Véhicule Press, 2012)
Stranger (Véhicule Press, 2016)

• Smith, A. J. M. News of the Phoenix and Other Poems. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1943.
• --. A Sort of Ecstasy. Michigan State College Press, 1954. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1954.
• --. Collected Poems. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1962.
• --. The Poetic Process. East Lansing, MI: College of Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, 1964. [non-fiction]
• --. Poems New and Collected. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1967.
• --. Towards a View of Canadian Letters: Selected Critical Essays 1928-1971. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1973. [non-fiction]
• --. On Poetry and Poets. Selected Essays of A.J.M. Smith. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977.
• --. The Classic Shade: Selected Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1978.
• --. Selected Writings. Ed. Michael Gnarowski. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2006.
• --. The Complete Poems. Ed. Brian Trehearne. London, Ontario: Canadian Poetry Press, 2007.
• --, ed. The Book of Canadian Poetry. Toronto: W.J. Gage, 1943.
• --, ed. Seven Centuries of Verse, English and American. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947.
• --, ed. The Worldly Muse: An Anthology of Serious Light Verse. New York: Abelard Press, 1951.
• --, ed. The Blasted Pine: An Anthology of Satire, Invective, and Disrespectful Verse. (with F.R. Scott). Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1957.
• --, ed. Masks of Poetry: Canadian Critics on Canadian Verse. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1962.
• --, ed. 100 Poems. New York: Scribner, 1965.
• --, ed. The Book of Canadian Prose. Toronto: W.J. Gage, 1965.
• --, ed. Early Beginnings to Confederation. Toronto: W.J. Gage, 1965.
• --, ed. Modern Canadian Verse in English and French. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1967.
• --, ed. The Canadian Century: English-Canadian Writing Since Confederation Toronto: Gage, 1973.
• --, ed. The Colonial Century: English-Canadian Writing Before Confederation. Toronto: Gage, 1973.
• --, F.R. Scott, and Leo Kennedy, eds. New Provinces: Poems of Several Authors. Macmillan, 1936.

• Smith, A. J. M. News of the Phoenix and Other Poems. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1943.
• --. A Sort of Ecstasy. Michigan State College Press, 1954. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1954.
• --. Collected Poems. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1962.
• --. The Poetic Process. East Lansing, MI: College of Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, 1964. [non-fiction]
• --. Poems New and Collected. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1967.
• --. Towards a View of Canadian Letters: Selected Critical Essays 1928-1971. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1973. [non-fiction]
• --. On Poetry and Poets. Selected Essays of A.J.M. Smith. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1977.
• --. The Classic Shade: Selected Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1978.
• --. Selected Writings. Ed. Michael Gnarowski. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2006.
• --. The Complete Poems. Ed. Brian Trehearne. London, Ontario: Canadian Poetry Press, 2007.
• --, ed. The Book of Canadian Poetry. Toronto: W.J. Gage, 1943.
• --, ed. Seven Centuries of Verse, English and American. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947.
• --, ed. The Worldly Muse: An Anthology of Serious Light Verse. New York: Abelard Press, 1951.
• --, ed. The Blasted Pine: An Anthology of Satire, Invective, and Disrespectful Verse. (with F.R. Scott). Toronto: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1957.
• --, ed. Masks of Poetry: Canadian Critics on Canadian Verse. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1962.
• --, ed. 100 Poems. New York: Scribner, 1965.
• --, ed. The Book of Canadian Prose. Toronto: W.J. Gage, 1965.
• --, ed. Early Beginnings to Confederation. Toronto: W.J. Gage, 1965.
• --, ed. Modern Canadian Verse in English and French. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1967.
• --, ed. The Canadian Century: English-Canadian Writing Since Confederation Toronto: Gage, 1973.
• --, ed. The Colonial Century: English-Canadian Writing Before Confederation. Toronto: Gage, 1973.
• --, F.R. Scott, and Leo Kennedy, eds. New Provinces: Poems of Several Authors. Macmillan, 1936.

"Robert Stanley Weir (1856-1926) was born in Hamilton, in what was then Canada West. He took all his higher education in Montreal, and was qualified for both teaching and the law. He chose law and rose rapidly in the profession, becoming in due course, like Routhier, a judge first as Recorder of the City of Montréal and later to the Exchequer Court of Canada (now the Federal Court of Canada). He wrote both learned legal works and poetry, and his fame as a writer won him election as a Fellow of the Royal Society which Routhier had helped found." (Government of Canada Web site)

"Robert Stanley Weir (1856-1926) was born in Hamilton, in what was then Canada West. He took all his higher education in Montreal, and was qualified for both teaching and the law. He chose law and rose rapidly in the profession, becoming in due course, like Routhier, a judge first as Recorder of the City of Montréal and later to the Exchequer Court of Canada (now the Federal Court of Canada). He wrote both learned legal works and poetry, and his fame as a writer won him election as a Fellow of the Royal Society which Routhier had helped found." (Government of Canada Web site)

Rosemary Sullivan has published ten books of creative non-fiction and poetry. Her works include Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille (2006), Cuba: Grace Under Pressure, By Heart: Elizabeth Smart, A Life, Labyrinth of Desire: Women Passion and Romantic Obsession, Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen, and The Bone Ladder: New and Selected Poetry. She was awarded the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction (1995), the City of Toronto Award (1996), and Guggenheim and Killam Fellowships, as well as National Magazine and Western Magazine awards for journalism. She has also edited numerous anthologies. She holds a Canada Research Chair in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, and the Maclean Hunter Chair in Literary Journalism at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

• Sullivan, Rosemary. The Guthrie Road. Black Moss Press, 2009.
• --. Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille. HarperCollins, 2006.
• --. Cuba: Grace Under Pressure. McArthur & Co, 2003.
• --. Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession. Toronto: Harper Flamingo, 2001.
• --. Shadow Maker: the Life of Gwendolyn MacEwan. Toronto: Harper Perennial, 2001.
• --. The Bone Ladder: New and Selected Poetry. Windsor, On.: Black Moss Press, 2000.
• --. Blue Panic. Windsor, On.: Black Moss Press, 1991.
• --. The Space a Name Makes. Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press, 1986.
• --, ed. Poetry by Canadian Women/ Oxford University Press, 1989.

An immigrant to Montreal from Ireland, Drummond graduated with an M.D. from McGill University in 1884 and started practising in the eastern townships (along the St. Lawrence River) to which his dialect poems so often refer. In 1888 he moved to Montreal. It was ten years later, well after his marriage to May Isobel Harvey, that Drummond published his first book of poetry, The Habitant (1897). His preface includes the following remarks:

Having lived, practically all my life, side by side with the French-Canadian people, I have grown to admire and love them, and I have felt that while many of the English-speaking public know perhaps as well as myself the French-Canadian of the cities, yet they have had little opportunity of becoming acquainted with the habitant, therefore I have endeavored to paint a few types, and in doing this, it has seemed to me that I could best attain the object in view by having my friends tell their own tales in their own way, as they would relate them to English-speaking auditors not conversant with the French tongue. (xi)

Drummond's sentiments were welcomed by Louis Fréchette, a well-known French-Canadian poet, in an enthusiastic introduction to this book that closes: "le Canadian-français sent que c'est là l'expression d'une âme amie; et, à ce compte, je dois à l'auteur plus que mes bravos, je lui dois en même temps un chaleureux merci" (x). Drummond went on to publish five more books of poetry, Phil-o-Rum's Canoe (1848), Johnnie Courteau (1901), The Voyager (1905), and The Great Fight (1908), and to become one of the most widely-read and loved poets of his nation. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1899 and received two honorary degrees, the first from the University of Toronto in 1902, and then from Bishop's University in 1905. For a biography, see J. B. Lyons, William Henry Drummond: Poet in Patois (Markham, Ont.: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1994; PS 8457 R85Z75 1994 Robarts Library).