Phil Hall (poet)
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Phil Hall (born 1953) is a Canadian poet.[1] He was raised on farms in the Kawarthas region of Ontario. His newest book of poems is An Oak Hunch.[2][3][4]
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[edit] Education
Hall holds an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Windsor.
[edit] Career
Hall has taught writing and literature at York University, Ryerson University, the Kootenay School of Writing, and a number of other colleges. Furthermore, Phil Hall has been a poet in residence at the University of Western Ontario, the Kingston Writer's Workshop, The Sage Hill Writing Experience in Saskatchewan, and elsewhere. He has been a small publisher of broadsides and chapbooks under his Flat Singles Press imprint since 1976.
He has been the literary editor of This Magazine and is editor and publisher of Flat Singles Press. He teaches poetry at George Brown College and English at Seneca College, both in Toronto.
[edit] Bibliography
- Eighteen Poems, (1973)
- Why I Haven't Written, (1985)
- Amanuensis, (1989)
- Pay-Dirt (cassette, labour songs and poems), (1991)
- The Unsaid, (1992)[5]
- Hearthedral: A Folk-Hermetic, (1996)
- Trouble Sleeping, (2000) (shortlisted for the 2001 Governor General's Award)
- An Oak Hunch, (2005) (shortlisted for the 2006 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips
- Hall's White Porcupine
- Hall's Ulterior Thule: Compulsion
- Phil Hall interviews Antero Alli (1999)
- Phil Hall on inspiration, language and the restraints of nationalism
- 12 or 20 questions: interview with Phil Hall
- Phil Hall’s surrural: Ontario gothic, the killdeer, the music of failure and the distraction of shifting ground (poetics.ca)
