Shane Neilson
{{Short description|Canadian physician and poet}}
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Shane Neilson (born 1975) is a Canadian physician, author and poet.
Life
Neilson was born in New Brunswick, Canada and trained in Dalhousie University Faculty of Medicine, followed by Memorial University of Newfoundland. He currently has a medical practice in Erin, and lives with his family in Guelph, Ontario.
Neilson has written two non fiction books about his experience as a physician Call Me Doctor{{Cite journal|last=Corbin|first=Jessica|date=2009-11-12|title=No easy path: Shane Neilson's "Call Me Doctor"|journal=Dalhousie Medical Journal|url=https://ojs.library.dal.ca/DMJ/article/view/3916|language=en|volume=36|issue=2|doi=10.15273/dmj.Vol36No2.3916|issn=1488-9994|doi-access=free}} and Gunmetal Blue.{{Cite book|url=https://49thshelf.com/Books/G/Gunmetal-Blue|title=Gunmetal Blue}}
Poetry
His books of poetry include Complete Physical, Meniscus and Exterminate My Heart. In 2010, Neilson won Arc Poetry Magazine's 15th annual Poem of the Year contest.
In addition to being an author, Neilson is a notable critic and the poetry editor for Frog Hollow Press, and in 2005 he was editor for a collection of Alden Nowlan's medical poems called Alden Nowlan and Illness.
Bibliography
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- {{Cite book|title=The beaten-down elegies|author=Shane Neilson|year=2003|publisher=Frog Hollow Press|location=Victoria, BC}}
- {{Cite book|title=Two poems|author=Shane Neilson|year=2004|publisher=Frog Hollow Press|location=Victoria, BC}}
- {{Cite book|title=Alden Nowlan & illness|author1=Alden Nowlan|author2=Shane Neilson|year=2004|publisher=Frog Hollow Press|location=Victoria, B.C.}}
- {{cite book|author=Shane Neilson|title=Call me doctor|url=https://archive.org/details/callmedoctor0000neil|url-access=registration|access-date=2011-03-11|date=1 April 2006|publisher=Pottersfield Press|isbn=978-1-895900-78-1}}
- {{cite book|author1=Shane Neilson|author2=George Alexander Walker|title=Exterminate my heart|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w5s1LQAACAAJ|access-date=2011-03-11|year=2008|publisher=Frog Hollow Press|isbn=978-0-9784232-0-9}}
- {{Cite book|title=Light : poems|author1=Shane Neilson|author2=Jessica Hiemstra|year=2008|publisher=Frog Hollow Press|location=Victoria, B.C.}}
- {{Cite book|title=Four maidens|author1=Shane Neilson|author2=George A Walker|year=2008|publisher=Frog Hollow Press|location=Victoria, B.C.}}
- {{Cite book|title=Approaches to poetry : the pre-poem moment|author=Shane Neilson|year=2009|publisher=Frog Hollow Press|location=Victoria, B.C.}}
- {{cite book|author=Shane Neilson|title=Meniscus|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h89SPgAACAAJ|access-date=2011-03-11|date=28 September 2009|publisher=Biblioasis|isbn=978-1-897231-60-9}}
- {{Cite book|title=Field hospital : the last writings of Lt. Colonel John McCrae|author=Shane Neilson|year=2010|publisher=JackPine Press|location=Saskatoon, Sask.}}
- {{cite book|author=Shane Neilson|title=Complete Physical|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d-Cmxk6F_lkC|access-date=2011-03-11|date=1 June 2010|publisher=The Porcupine's Quill|isbn=978-0-88984-325-7}}
- {{Cite book|title=Elision : the Milton Acorn poems|author=Shane Neilson|year=2010|publisher=Alfred Gustav Press|location=North Vancouver, BC}}
- {{cite book|author=Shane Neilson|title=Gunmetal Blue:: Essays on Poetry and Medicine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q3lCYgEACAAJ|access-date=2011-03-11|date=15 May 2011|publisher=Palimpsest Press|isbn=978-1-926794-02-0}}
- {{Cite book|title=Proofs & Equational love : the poetry of Jim Johnstone|author1=Jason Guriel|author2=Shane Neilson|year=2011|publisher=Frog Hollow Press|location=Victoria, BC}}
- {{Cite book|title=Elegies|author1=Madeline Bassnett|author2=Shane Neilson|year=2011|publisher=Frog Hollow Press|location=Victoria, B.C.}}
- {{Cite book|title=Fatherhood : the poetry of Wayne Clifford|author=Shane Neilson|year=2011|publisher=Frog Hollow Press|location=Victoria, BC}}
- {{Cite book|title=Will : stories|author=Shane Neilson|year=2013|publisher=Enfield & Wizenty|location=Winnipeg, Manitoba}}
- {{Cite book|title=Doctor Acorn : or: how I joined the Canadian Liberation Movement and learned to love the stern nurse fusion-bomb sun|author=Shane Neilson|year=2013|publisher=Frog Hollow Press|location=Victoria, British Columbia}}
- Shane Neilson (2014) "Able Physiologists Discuss Grief Musculatures." Jack Pine Press.
- Shane Neilson (2015) On Shaving Off His Face.{{Cite book|last=Neilson|first=Shane|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V2wiCAAAQBAJ|title=On Shaving Off His Face|date=2015-04-15|publisher=The Porcupine's Quill|isbn=978-0-88984-820-7|language=en}} The Porcupine's Quill.
- Shane Neilson (2018) Dysphoria. The Porcupine's Quill.
- Shane Neilson (2019) New Brunswick. Biblioasis.
- Shane Neilson (2019) Margin of Interest: Essays on English Language Poetry of the Maritimes. The Porcupine's Quill.{{Cite book|last=Neilson|first=Shane|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tI6xDwAAQBAJ|title=Margin of Interest|date=2019-09-24|publisher=The Porcupine's Quill|isbn=978-0-88984-864-1|language=en}}
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Category:20th-century Canadian poets