J. Michael Yates

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J. Michael Yates (born April 10, 1938) is a Canadian poet and dramatist.

Born in Fulton, Missouri, Yates studied at the University of Missouri and University of Michigan. Beginning in 1963, he taught comparative literature at several universities in the United States between 1963, before emigrating to Canada in 1966. He spent the next five years as professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, where he later served as writer-in-residence.

Yates lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Poetry

  • Spiral of Mirrors - 1967
  • Hunt in an Unmapped Interior - 1967
  • Cantacle for Electronic Music - 1967
  • Parallax - 1971
  • The Great Bear Lake Meditations - 1971 ISBN 0-88750-028-5
  • Nothing Speaks for the Blue Moraines - 1973
  • Breath of the Snow Leopard - 1974
  • The Qualicum Physics - 1975
  • Esox Nobilior Non Esox Lucius - 1978
  • Fugue Brancusi - 1983
  • Insel: The Queen Charlotte Islands Meditations - 1983
  • Various Northern Meditations - 1984
  • The Completely Collapsible Portable Man - 1984
  • Schedules of Silence - 1986 ISBN 0-88978-188-5
  • During - 1999
  • Hongyun: New and Collected Shorter Poems 1955-2005 - 2005 ISBN 1-4208-2771-5

[edit] Fiction

[edit] Fiction and drama

  • The Abstract Beast - 1971

[edit] Drama

  • Night Freight - 1975

[edit] Non-fiction

  • Line Screw: Memoir of a Prison Guard - 1994

[edit] Anthologies

  • Light Like a Summons - 1990

[edit] Awards

  • International Broadcasting Award, 1960 & 1961
  • Major Hopwood Award for Poetry and Drama from the University of Michigan, 1964
  • Look of Books Award, 1972
  • Lifetime Achievement Award in the Arts and Sciences from the University of Missouri
  • The Writer's Choice Award, 1988

[edit] External links

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