Roy Miki

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Roy Akira Miki (born October 10, 1942) is a Canadian poet and scholar.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to second generation Japanese-Canadian parents, he attended the University of Manitoba, the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University, where he is currently a professor. He lives in Vancouver. He is very active is the Japanese-Canadian community and has fought hard for redress from the federal government for the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War.

In 2006, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. ^[1] In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Poetry 1.2 Critical studies 1.3 Editor 1.4 Other 2 External links

[edit] Works

[edit] Poetry

• 1991: In Saving Face: Poems Selected, 1976-1988
• 1995: Random Access File, poems
• 2001: Surrender, winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for poetry
• 2006: There

[edit] Critical studies

• 1983: The Prepoetics of William Carlos Williams
• 1990: An annotated bibliography of George Bowering
• 1988: Tracing the Paths, a book on bpNichol

[edit] Editor

• 1985: This Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese-Canadians, 1941-1948 by Muriel Kitagawa (1985)
• 1997: Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy Kiyooka (1997)

[edit] Other

• 1998: Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing, essays

[edit] External links

• Roy Akira Miki at The Canadian Encyclopedia