Victor Coleman
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| birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada
| genre = Poetry
| awards = Harbourfront Festival Prize (2000) {{cite news |title=Literary stars to light up Harbourfront |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/literary-stars-to-light-up-harbourfront/article4167653 |newspaper=The Globe and Mail|date=21 September 2000 }}
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Victor Coleman (born September 9, 1944) is a Canadian poet.
Biography
Born in Toronto, Coleman was the first editor at Coach House Books from 1966 until 1975. After his tenure in publishing, he managed the multidisciplinary art centre, A Space in Toronto for four years. He has also taught film studies and creative writing at Queen's University and creative writing at York University.[https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victor-coleman Victor Coleman] at The Canadian Encyclopedia, accessed September 1, 2019
His sister, Elizabeth Amer, served two terms on Toronto City Council in the 1980s and 1990s, and has been a prominent advocate for the housing rights of residents of the Toronto Islands.John Bentley Mays, "Sculpture dedicated to artists' 'den mother'". The Globe and Mail, October 30, 1985.
Bibliography
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- Old Friends' Ghosts: Poems 1963-68 (1970)
- Terrific at Both Ends (1978)
- Captions for the Deaf (1979)
- From the Dark Wood (1985)
- Corrections (1985)
- Lapsed WASP (1994)
- The Exchange: Poems 1984-95 (1999)
- LETTER DROP (2000)
- Honeymoon Suite/ Letter Drop (2001)
- MI SING (2004)
- Icon Tact (2006)
- Driven To Our Knees (2008)
- Mal Arme: Letter to Drop III (2008)
- The Occasional Troubadour (2010)
- O - Three Lectures and a Postscript (2010)
- IvH: An Alphamath Serial (2012)
- Miserable Singers: Book One (2014)
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See also
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References
External links
- [http://tnsow.com/facilitators/victor-coleman/] (The Toronto New School of Writing)
- [https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/victor-coleman Coleman], The Canadian Encyclopedia
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7jIOYab2TA] (Reading of The Occasional Troubadour)
- [http://atom.archives.sfu.ca/index.php/victor-coleman-fonds Records of Victor Coleman are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books]
- Archives of Victor Coleman [http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect?app=fonandcol&id=3671542&lang=eng (Victor Coleman fonds, R11721)] are held at Library and Archives Canada
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Category:Academic staff of York University
Category:20th-century Canadian poets
Category:20th-century Canadian male writers