Shane Rhodes Explained

Shane Rhodes is a Canadian poet.

Life

He graduated from the University of New Brunswick, and currently lives in Ottawa.

He is a two-time winner of the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry. In 2008, when his work The Bindery won the award, Rhodes turned over half of the $1,500 prize money to the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, a First Nations health centre. At the time the award was named the Lampman-Scott Award, honouring both Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott, and Rhodes felt that Scott's legacy as a civil servant who was responsible for some of Canada's more controversial policy legacy on First Nations issues overshadowed his work as a pioneer of Canadian poetry.^[1]

Rhodes identifies as bisexual.^[2] His work was included in John Barton and Billeh Nickerson's 2007 anthology Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets.

Awards

• Alberta Book Award for poetry, for The Wireless Room
• 2003 Archibald Lampman Award, for Holding Pattern
• 2008 Lampman-Scott Award, for The Bindery
• The 2009 PK Page Founders Award for Poetry from the Malahat Review
• Winner of the 34th National Magazine Awards for poetry (2011)
• Winner of the 2018 City of Ottawa Book Award, for Dead White Men https://ottawa.ca/en/arts-heritage-and-events/professional-cultural-awards-and-programs/ottawa-book-awards

Works

• Book: The Wireless Room. NeWest Press. 2000. 978-1-896300-15-3 .
• Book: Holding Pattern. NeWest Press. 2002. 978-1-896300-60-3. registration.
• Book: Tengo Sed . Greenboathouse Books. 2004. 978-1-894744-17-1 . Chapbook
• Book: The blues. Above/Ground Press. 2004 . broadside
• Book: The Bindery. NeWest Press. 2007. 978-1-897126-14-1 .
• Book: Err. Nightwood Editions. 2011. 978-0-88971-256-0 .
• Book: X. Nightwood Editions. 2013. 978-0-88971-288-1 .
• Book: Dead White Men. Coach House Books. 2017. 978-1-55245-345-2 .

Anthologies

• New Canadian Poetry. Even Jones, ed. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2000.
• Book: Side/lines: a new Canadian poetics. Rob McLennan. Insomniac Press. 2002. 978-1-894663-34-2 .
• Book: Breathing fire 2: Canada's new poets. registration. . Patrick Lane. Nightwood Editions. 2004. 978-0-88971-195-2 .
• Book: Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets . . . June 1, 2007 . 978-1-55152-217-3 . registration .
• The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008. Stephanie Bolster, ed. Tightrope Books, 2008.
• Best Gay Poetry 2008. Lawrence Schimel, ed. A Midsummer Night's Press: New York, 2008.
• Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. Melissa Tuckey, ed. University of Georgia Press, 2018.

Notes and References

1. "Poet donates prize as reminder of award namesake's legacy". CBC News, October 21, 2008.
2. http://www.xtra.ca/public/Ottawa/Seminal_achievement_includes_local_writers-2852.aspx "Seminal achievement includes local writers"