Barry McKinnon

Barry Benjamin McKinnon (* 1944 in Calgary , Alberta ) is a Canadian poet who in 1992 to the BC Book Prizes belonging Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and in 1995 and 2004 to bp Nichol Chap-Book Award won.

Life

Barry Benjamin McKinnon was born in 1944 in Calgary, Alberta, where he also grew up. In youth McKinnon was a gifted Bebop - drummer , but was of Bradford Robinson convinced that he would have an even greater sealing talent. Robinson took the time to edit McKinnon's already existing texts and let the young man improve them until both were convinced of the result. In 1965 McKinnon attended Sir George Williams University in Montreal after two years of college , where he completed poetry courses with Irving Layoton . 1967 graduated with a Bachelor and 1969 with a Magister Artium from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In 1967 he made his debut with the poetry collection The Golden Daybreak Hair . In 1969 he started teaching English at the College of New Caledonia in Prince George , where he has lived ever since. McKinnon writes preferably in the form of the long-poem ( long poem ) or the serial sequence.

In 1970 he founded the Caledonia Writing Series and served as its editor in the years that followed. The Caledonia Writing Series has since established itself as the forum for British Columbia's independent poets. His interviews with these poets were published in the journal Open Letter in 1980 . In 1971 McKinnon formulated the following self-description in Al Purdy's anthology Storm Warning : "I started to write poetry as an act of rebellion - to claim an identity that was my own."

The The (1980) made it to the finals of the prestigious Governor General's Award the following year .

In 1990 he edited Victoria Walker's work Suitcase , which received the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize that year . Due to his residence in British Columbia , he was in turn nominated two years later for the BC Book Prizes Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. He won this award with Pulplog this year . He won the bp Nichol Chap-Book Award in 1995 and 2004.

Bolivia / Peru (2003) is a mixture of prose fragments, diary entries and poems that were based on a five-week trip through Peru and with which McKinnon received the 2004 bp Nichol Chap-Book Award. In the millenium (2009) combines a collection of poems from the last ten years and various prose texts by McKinnon.

Barry McKinnon taught English at the College of New Caledonia in Prince George, British Columbia until his retirement in 2005. On May 26, 2006, the University of British Columbia awarded him an Honorary Doctor of Laws. The reason given was that he had resisted all those budget restrictions in creative writing for 35 years in order to continue to advance Canadian poetry similar to George Bowering despite the regional narrowness : “For over 35 years, Barry McKinnon has suffered the budget cuts and downsizing, the redistribution of resources to more practical programs than creative writing, and the stigma of being from a smaller urban center ".

Barbara Munk is one of his better-known students . During his time in the provincial metropolis of Prince George, McKinnon organized more than 100 readings, including with Margaret Atwood , Michael Ondaatje and former resident Brian Fawcett .

review

to In the Millennium

• "McKinnon stretches language and form. It takes a few readings to get the gist and admire it. Will readers have the patience? We live and read under the tyranny of instant access and these poems do not lend themselves to a quick hit. Yet someone has to do it; stretch the language. The complex realities that inform his poems are fractured on the page, cut up, jagged, interspersed on spaced-out lines. Spliced ​​assemblages do not make for pretty poems. McKinnon says he wants his poems to be 'habitable and yet show dissolving forces'. "

to Wrestling the Alligator

• "Barry McKinnon's Wrestling the Alligator is a sly."

reception

• "The most graphic example of poem as process that I can find is Barry McKinnon's The Death of a Lyric Poet ."

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Poetry and prose

• The Golden Daybreak Hair . Toronto, ON: Aliquondo Press, 1967.
• The Carcasses of Spring . Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 1971.
• Stamp collection: written and drawn with a special delivery, morning of Aug. 27/70. Blewointmentpress, Vancouver 1973.
• I Wanted to Say Something . Prince George, BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1975.
• Death of a Lyric Poet . Prince George, BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1975.
• Songs & Speeches . Prince George, BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1976.
• Sex at Thirty One . Prince George, BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1977.
• The organizer . Gorse Press, Prince George, BC 1979.
• The the. (Fragments) . Prince George, BC: Repository / Gorse Press, 1979.
• The The . Toronto, ON: Coach House Press, 1980. (nominated for Governor General's Award in 1981) ISBN 0-88910-217-1 .
• Thoughts / Sketches . North Vancouver, BC: Tatlow / Gorse, 1985.
• I Wanted to Say Something . Red Deer, AB: Red Deer College Press, 1990. ISBN 0-88995-046-6 .
• Pulplog . Prince George, BC: Caitlin Press, 1991, ISBN 0-920576-34-6 .
• Four Realities: poets from northern BC . Prince George, BC: Caitlin Press, 1992.
• Arrythmia . Prince George, BC: Gorse Press, 1994.
• The Center . Prince George, BC: Caitlin Press, 1995, ISBN 0-920576-51-6 .
• Bolivia / Peru . Gorse Press, Prince George 2003, ISBN 1-895101-12-3 .
• The center: poems, 1970-2000. Talonbooks, Vancouver 2004, ISBN 0-88922-497-8 .
• In the millenium. New Star Books, Vancouver 2009, ISBN 978-1-55420-047-4 .

Short stories

• John Harris; Barry Benjamin McKinnon (Ed.): The Pulp mill. A collection of local short stories. Repository Press, Prince George 1977, ISBN 0-920104-00-2 .

items

• With Jim Brown: Vancouver Writing Seen in the 60s. In: line 7/8 . 1986, pp. 940-123.
• Sappho's Gaps: a review of If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson. In: Vancouver Review . November 11, 2004 (the print version was shortened). Retrieved July 8, 2012.

Awards and nominations

• 1981: Governor General's Literary Award finalist for The The
• 1981: Malahat Review Award for McKinnon-sponsored Gorse Press
• 1992: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize for Pulplog
• 1995: bp Nichol Chap-Book Award for Arrythmia
• 2004: bp Nichol Chap-Book Award for Bolivia / Peru
• 2007: Canada Reads selection (The UNBC Reads Book Choice) includes The Center: Poems 1970-2000
• 2008: Shortlist bp Nichol Chap-Book Award for Surety Disappears

literature

• Sharon Theses: Interview with Barry McKinnon. In: The Capilano Review . Issue 1.32, 1984, p. 20.

Web links

• Author portrait on Talonbooks.com Retrieved July 8, 2012.
• Barry McKinnon biography . On: www.abcbookworld.com. Accessed July 8, 2012.
• Barry McKinnon's literary legacy. Directory on: memorybc.ca . Library of Simon Fraser University . Accessed Jul 8, 2012.
• from the center to the periphery: an interview with Barry McKinnon . 2005/2006. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
• Poem example Into the blind world.
• Barry McKinnon's "pages from a prairie journal," variation two / tree. ( Memento of January 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) At www.styluspoetryjournal.com. 2002. Retrieved July 8, 2012.

Individual evidence

1. ^ BpNichol Chapbook Poetry Award. Phoenix Community Works Foundation ( Memento of the original from June 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ In Memoriam Bradford Robinson 1942–2009 ( Memento of the original dated November 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 7, 2012.  
3. ^ College of New Caledonia . Retrieved July 8, 2012.
4. ↑ Portrait of the author on Talonbooks.com.Retrieved July 8, 2012.
5. ↑ Barry McKinnon's literary legacy. Directory on: memorybc.ca . Library of Simon Fraser University . Accessed Jul 8, 2012.
6. ↑ theculturemill . May 2006. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
7. ↑ Barry McKinnon biography . On: www.abcbookworld.com. Accessed July 8, 2012.
8. ^ Short biography of Barry McKinnon. On: www.newstarbooks. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
9. ↑ Announcement of the honors - www.unbc.ca. January 20, 2006. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
10. ↑ theculturemill . Retrieved July 8, 2012.
11. ↑ www.unbc.ca . June 2, 2006. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
12. ↑ www.harbourpublishing.com . Retrieved July 8, 2012.
13. ↑ nbca.unbc.ca ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 8, 2012.  
14. ↑ Barry McKinnon biography . On: www.abcbookworld.com. Accessed July 8, 2012.
15. ↑ In: Lynne Van Luve (Ed.): Going Some Place: Creative Non-fiction Across Canada. Coteau Books 2000, ISBN 1-55050-137-2 .
16. ↑ Barbra Leslie: Review: Going Some Place: Creative Non-fiction Across Canada . Ed. by Lynne Van Luven. In: Quill & Quire . December 2000. Retrieved July 8, 2012.
17. ↑ Don Precosky: Of poets and hackers. Notes on Canadian Post-Modern Poets. In: Studies in Canadian Literature. Vol 12. No. 1 (1987). Retrieved July 8, 2012.
18. ↑ Fred Wah : To Locate, review of Songs and Speeches by Barry McKinnon. In: Open Letter 3/7, summer 1977: p. 110f.
19. ↑ Canada Reads 2007 ( Memento of the original from June 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: www.library.unbc.ca. Retrieved July 8, 2012.  
20. ↑ abovegroundpress . January 26, 2012. Retrieved July 8, 2012.