John Robert Colombo
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John Robert Colombo is a Canadian poet, editor and humorist, best known as a writer of reference works and editor of anthologies pertaining to Canadian culture, history and geography.
Colombo's most famous works compile quotations by famous Canadian figures, in a format similar to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. He has also been a prolific compiler of Canadian stories of the supernatural, including ghost and UFO stories.
He was educated at the University of Toronto in English and philosophy, graduating in 1959.
He is a recipient of the Centennial Medal, the Order of Cyril and Methodius (1st class), the Harbourfront Literary Award, a D.Litt. (h.c.) from York University and the Order of Canada. An occasional contributor to newspapers and magazines as well as radio and television, he hosted the six-part series Unexplained Canada on Space: The Imagination Station, which premiered in January of 2006.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Poetry
- Lines for the Last Day (1960)
- The Mackenzie Poems (1966)
- Miraculous Montages (1966)
- The Great Wall of China (1966)
- William Lyon Mackenzie Rides Again! (1967)
- Abracadabra (1967)
- John Toronto (1969)
- Neo Poems (1970)
- The Great San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (1971)
- Leonardo's Lists (1972)
- Praise Poems (1972)
- Translations from the English (1974)
- The Sad Truths (1974)
- The Great Collage (1974)
- Proverbial Play (1975)
- Mostly Monsters (1977, 1995)
- Variable Cloudiness (1977)
- Private Parts (1978)
- The Great Cities of Antiquity (1979)
- Poems of the Inuit (1981)
- Selected Poems (1982)
- Selected Translations (1982)
- Windigo (1982)
- Recent Poems (1982)
- Songs of the Indians (1983)
- Off Earth (1987)
- Songs of the Great Land (1989)
- The Mystery of the Shaking Tent (1993)
- Voices of Rama (1994)
- Luna Park / One Thousand Poems (1994)
- Space Poems (1995)
- Contrails (1996)
- Earlier Lives (1996)
- Ether / Rewords (1997)
- What is What (1998)
- Interspaces (1999)
- Impromptus (2000)
- Half a World Away (2000)
[edit] References
- Colombo's Canadian Quotations (1974)
- Colombo's Names & Nicknames (1974)
- Colombo's Concise Canadian Quotations (1976)
- Colombo's Canadian References (1976)
- Colombo's Book of Canada (1978)
- Colombo's Book of Marvels (1979)
- The Canada Colouring Book (1980)
- Toronto's Fantastic Street Names (1982)
- Colombo's 101 Canadian Places (1983)
- Colombo's Canadiana Quiz Book (1983)
- Canadian Literary Landmarks (1983)
- 1001 Questions about Canada (1986)
- Colombo's New Canadian Quotations (1987)
- Mysterious Canada (1988)
- 999 Questions about Canada (1989)
- Writer's Map of Toronto (1991)
- The Dictionary of Canadian Quotations (1991)
- The Canadian Global Almanac (1992)
- Writer's Map of Ontario (1992)
- The Little Blue Book of UFOs (1992)
- Colombo's All-Time Great Canadian Quotations (1994)
- Omnium Gatherum (1994)
- Ghost Stories of Ontario (1995)
- Shapely Places (1996)
- Haunted Toronto (1996)
- Quotable Canada (1998)
- Mysteries of Ontario (1999)
- Colombo's Famous Lasting Words (2000)
- Terrors of the Night (2005)
[edit] Anthologies
- Richard Maurice Bucke: Catalogue (1963)
- Probings (1968)
- Colombo's Hollywood (1979)
- Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (1979)
- Other Canadas (1979)
- Blackwood's Books (1981)
- Friendly Aliens (1981)
- Not to Be Taken at Night (1981)
- Years of Light (1982)
- Extraordinary Experiences (1989)
- Mysterious Encounters (1990)
- Mackenzie King's Ghost (1991)
- UFOs over Canada (1991)
- Dark Visions (1992)
- Walt Whitman's Canada (1992)
- The New Consciousness (1994)
- Close Encounters of the Canadian Kind (1994)
- Ghosts Galore! (1994)
- Strange Stories (1994)
- Closer than You Think (1998)
- Marvellous Stories (1998)
- Singular Stories (1999)
- Weird Stories (2000)
- Ghosts in Our Past (2000)
- Ghost Stories of Canada (2000)
[edit] Humour
- Colombo's Little Book of Canadian Proverbs (1975)
- 222 Canadian Jokes (1981)
- Colombo's Last Words (1982)
- Colombo's Laws (1982)
- René Lévesque Buys Canada Savings Bonds (1983)
- Great Moments in Canadian History (1984)
- The Toronto Puzzle Book (1984)
- Canada First Quiz (1984)
- Quotations from Chairman Lamport (1990)
- Ogdenisms (1994)
- Metro's Goldwyn Mayor (1995)
- Erotica Canadiana (1995)
- 666 Canadian Jokes (1996)
- Slightly Higher in Canada (1996)
- Colombo's Doublebook of Laws & Last Lines (1996)
- The Stephen Leacock Quote Book (1996)
- Iron Curtains (1996)
- Kidstuff (1996)
- All About Us (1998)
- More Iron Curtains (1998)
- Yet More Iron Curtains (2000)
- Canadian Capers (2000)
