Clint Burnham Explained
Clint Burnham (born 1962 in Comox, British Columbia) is a Canadian writer and academic.[1]
He published the poetry collections Be Labour Reading (1997)[2] and Buddyland (2000), and the short story collection Airborne Photo (1999),[3] before publishing his debut novel Smoke Show in 2005.[4] The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2006.[5]
He was a ReLit Award nominee in the poetry category in 2018 for Pound @ Guantanamo (2017),[6] and in the short fiction category in 2022 for White Lie (2021).[7]
He has also published the poetry collections Rental Van (2007) and The Benjamin Sonnets (2009), and numerous academic non-fiction works on literature, art and architecture. He is a professor of English at Simon Fraser University.
His poems "Rent-a-Marxist" and "An Evening at Home" were anthologized in Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets (2007).
Publications
As author
- Buddyland (1994)
- The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory (1995)
- Be Labour Reading (1997)
- Airborne Photo (1999)
- Steven McCaffery (2003)
- Smoke Show (2006)
- Rental Van (2007)
- The Benjamin Sonnets (2009)
- The Only Poetry That Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing (2012)
- Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street (2016)
- Pound @ Guantánamo (2016)
- Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?: Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture (2018)
- White Lie (2021)
As editor
- From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom, co-edited with Paul Budra (2012)
- Lacan and the Environment, co-edited with Paul Kingsbury (2021)
Notes and References
- News: Riley . Ali . 2005-12-17 . Novel straddles line between poetry, prose . Calgary Herald.
- News: Fitzgerald . Judith . Judith Fitzgerald . 1998-03-07 . Poetry good, bad and ugly . The Globe and Mail.
- News: Bacchus . Lee . 1999-08-08 . Angst, anger and anxiety . The Province.
- News: Koepke . Melora . 2006-03-25 . Readers connect the dots: Author Clint Burnham deliberately leaves things a little vague . Vancouver Sun.
- News: Hughes . Fiona . 2006-03-17 . B.C. Book finalists include Coupland and Vaillant . Vancouver Courier.
- Web site: 2018-04-09 . Zoe Whittall, Jordan Abel among writers shortlisted for ReLit Awards . 2023-04-23 . . 2022-05-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220523022223/https://www.cbc.ca/books/zoe-whittall-jordan-abel-among-writers-shortlisted-for-relit-awards-1.4611186 . live .
- Web site: 2022-05-09 . Short fiction from Norma Dunning, David Huebert, Alix Ohlin among works shortlisted for 2022 ReLit Awards . 2023-04-23 . . 2022-11-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20221117232024/https://www.cbc.ca/books/short-fiction-from-norma-dunning-david-huebert-alix-ohlin-among-works-shortlisted-for-2022-relit-awards-1.6446211 . live .