Stephen Scobie

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Stephen Scobie (born 31 December 1943) is a Canadian poet, critic, and scholar.

Born in Carnoustie, Scotland, Scobie relocated to Canada in 1965. He earned a PhD from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver after which he taught at the University of Alberta and at the University of Victoria, from which he recently retired.

Scobie is a founding editor of Longspoon Press, an elected member of the Royal Society of Canada, and the recipient of the 1986 Prix Gabrielle Roy for Canadian Criticism and the 1981 Governor General's Award for McAlmon's Chinese Opera.

[edit] Selected Bibliography

Babylondromat: Poems - 1966
One Word Poems - 1969
In the Silence of the Year - 1971
The Birken Tree - 1973
Stone Poems: Poems 1967-1969 - 1973
Air Loom - 1974
The Rooms We Are: Poems 1970-1971 - 1974
Airwaves, Sealevel, Landlock - 1978
Leonard Cohen - 1978
McAlmon's Chinese Opera: Poems - 1980
A Grand Memory for Forgetting - 1981
Expecting Rain: New Poems - 1984
The Ballad of Isabel Gunn - 1987
Dunino - 1989
Ghosts: a Glossary of the Intertext - 1990
Remains - 1990
Alias Bob Dylan - 1991
Gospel: a Poem - 1994
Taking the Gate: a Journey through Scotland - 1996
Earthquakes and Explorations: Language and Painting from Cubism to Concrete Poetry - 1997
And Forget my Name: a Speculative Biography of Bob Dylan - 1999
The Spaces in Between: Selected Poems 1965-2001 - 2003