Seymour Mayne
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Seymour Mayne (born 1944) is a Canadian poet and literary translator. He has published over 50 works of poetry and literary criticism, and has edited several anthologies of Canadian and Jewish literature.
He was a co-founder of Very Stone House, a small press dedicated to Canadian poetry, in 1965 with fellow poets Patrick Lane and bill bissett.
He also published a critical analysis of poet Irving Layton's work in 1978.
Mayne currently teaches Canadian literature at the University of Ottawa.
[edit] Works
- That Monocycle the Moon (1964)
- From the Portals of Mouseholes (1966)
- Ticklish Ticlorice (1969)
- Anewd (1969)
- Mutetations (1969)
- manimals (1969)
- The gigole teaspoon (1969)
- Mouth (1970)
- For Stems of Light (1971)
- Face (1971)
- Cutting the Keys (1974)
- Name (1975)
- Begging (1977)
- Diasporas (1977)
- Irving Layton: The Poet and His Critics (1978)
- Racoon (sic) (1979)
- The Impossible Promised Land: Poems New and Selected (1981)
- Essential Words: An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Poetry (1985)
- Children of Abel (1986)
- Killing Time (1992)
- The Song of Moses (1995)
- Jerusalem: An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Poetry, ed. with B. Glen Rotchin (1996)
- Carbon Filter: Poems in Dedication (1999)
- A Rich Garland: Poems for A. M. Klein, ed. with B. Glen Rotchin (1999)
- Light Industry (2000)
- Hail (2002)
- Ricochet (2004)
- September Rain (2005)
- I Am Still the Boy
- Tiptoeing on the Mount
- A Dream of Birds, written with B. Glen Rotchin (2007)
