Victor Coleman

Victor Coleman
Born	(1944-11-09) November 9, 1944 (age 80) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre	Poetry
Notable awards	Harbourfront Festival Prize (2000) [1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

Bibliography

• 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)

See also

• Canadian literature
• Canadian poetry
• List of Canadian poets

References

1. "Literary stars to light up Harbourfront". The Globe and Mail. 21 September 2000.
2. Victor Coleman at The Canadian Encyclopedia, accessed September 1, 2019
3. John Bentley Mays, "Sculpture dedicated to artists' 'den mother'". The Globe and Mail, October 30, 1985.

External links

• [1] (The Toronto New School of Writing)
• Coleman, The Canadian Encyclopedia
• [2] (Reading of The Occasional Troubadour)
• Records of Victor Coleman are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books
• Archives of Victor Coleman (Victor Coleman fonds, R11721) are held at Library and Archives Canada