Mick Burrs

{{Short description|Canadian poet (1940–2021)}}

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Mick Burrs (April 1940 – April 20, 2021){{cite web|url=https://skwriter.com/about-swg/news/mick-burrs---steven-michael-berzensky-passes-away|title=Mick Burrs (Steven Michael Berzensky) passes away|website=SWG News|publisher=Saskatchewan Writers' Guild|date=April 27, 2021|access-date=May 22, 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thestar/obituary.aspx?n=mick-burrs&pid=198525630|title=Mick Burrs 1940–2021|newspaper=Toronto Star|date=May 2, 2021|via=Legacy|access-date= May 22, 2021}} was a Canadian poet who lived in Toronto, Ontario. He was born and raised in California, and after leaving the United States to avoid the Vietnam War, he spent much of his life in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. He won the 1998 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry for a volume of his collected works, Variations on the Birth of Jacob.{{cite web | title=Archived Awards | website=Saskatchewan Book Awards | url=https://bookawards.sk.ca/awards/awards-nominees/archived-awards#div_year_1998 | access-date=March 17, 2021}} This book was published under his birth name, Steven Michael Berzensky, as was a comprehensive collection of his poetry, The Names Leave the Stones: Poems New and Selected (2001 Canada, 2002 United States). He was the former editor of Grain magazine. He died on April 20, 2021, at the age of 81 just 10 days after his birthday.