Christopher Dewdney
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Christopher Dewdney (born May 9, 1951) is an avant-garde Canadian poet. He was born in London, Ontario, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario; where he currently is a professor at York University. Dewdney is very interested in the sciences and his work makes substantial use of vocabulary and themes from physics, biology and geology. His major work is the "Natural History of Southwestern Ontario", which was published in several books and eventually collected in The Natural History (2002). His essays have appeared in The Immaculate Perception, The Secular Grail and Last Flesh.
He is married to novelist Barbara Gowdy.
Works:
- A Palaeozoic Geology of London, Ontario - 1974
- Fovea Centralis - 1975
- After Sublime - 1980
- Predators of the Adoration - 1983 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- The Immaculate Perception - 1985 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Permugenisis - 1987
- The Radiant Inventory - 1988 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Concordat Proviso Ascendant (A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario, book 3) - 1991
- The Secular Grail - 1993
- Demon Pond - 1994
- Last Flesh: Life in the Transhuman Era - 1998
- Signal Fires (A Natural History of Southwestern Ontario, books 3 and 4) - 2000
- The Natural History - 2002
- Acquainted With the Night - 2004
