Victor Coleman Explained

Victor Coleman
Birth Date:	9 November 1944
Birth Place:	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre:	Poetry
Awards:	Harbourfront Festival Prize (2000) ^[1]

Victor Coleman (born September 9, 1944) is a Canadian poet.

Biography

Born in Toronto, Coleman was the first editor at Coach House Books from 1966 until 1975. After his tenure in publishing, he managed the multidisciplinary art centre, A Space in Toronto for four years. He has also taught film studies and creative writing at Queen's University and creative writing at York University.^[2]

Bibliography

• Old Friends' Ghosts: Poems 1963-68 (1970)
• Terrific at Both Ends (1978)
• Captions for the Deaf (1979)
• From the Dark Wood (1985)
• Corrections (1985)
• Lapsed WASP (1994)
• The Exchange: Poems 1984-95 (1999)
• LETTER DROP (2000)
• Honeymoon Suite/ Letter Drop (2001)
• MI SING (2004)
• Icon Tact (2006)
• Driven To Our Knees (2008)
• Mal Arme: Letter to Drop III (2008)
• The Occasional Troubadour (2010)
• O - Three Lectures and a Postscript (2010)
• IvH: An Alphamath Serial (2012)
• Miserable Singers: Book One (2014)

See also

• Canadian literature
• Canadian poetry
• List of Canadian poets

References

1. News: Literary stars to light up Harbourfront . The Globe and Mail. 21 September 2000 .
2. https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victor-coleman Victor Coleman

External links

• http://tnsow.com/facilitators/victor-coleman/ (The Toronto New School of Writing)
• Coleman, The Canadian Encyclopedia
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7jIOYab2TA (Reading of The Occasional Troubadour)
• Records of Victor Coleman are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
• Archives of Victor Coleman (Victor Coleman fonds, R11721) are held at Library and Archives Canada