- Seymour Mayne
Seymour Mayne (born 1944) is a Canadian
poet and literary translator. He has published over 50 works of poetry and literary criticism, and has edited several anthologies of Canadian and Jewish literature.He was a co-founder of
Very Stone House , a small press dedicated to Canadian poetry, in 1965 with fellow poetsPatrick Lane andbill bissett .He also published a critical analysis of poet
Irving Layton 's work in 1978.Mayne currently teaches
Canadian literature at theUniversity of Ottawa .Works
* "That Monocycle the Moon" (1964)
* "From the Portals of Mouseholes" (1966 )
* "Ticklish Ticlorice" (1969)
* "Anewd" (1969 )
* "Mutetations" (1969)
* "manimals" (1969 )
* "The gigole teaspoon" (1969)
* "Mouth" (1970 )
* "For Stems of Light" (1971)
* "Face" (1971 )
* "Cutting the Keys" (1974)
* "Name" (1975 )
* "Begging" (1977)
* "Diasporas" (1977 )
* "Irving Layton: The Poet and His Critics" (1978)
* "Racoon (sic)" (1979 )
* "The Impossible Promised Land: Poems New and Selected" (1981)
* "Essential Words: An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Poetry" (1985 )
* "Children of Abel" (1986)
* "Killing Time" (1992 )
* "The Song of Moses" (1995)
* "Jerusalem: An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Poetry", ed. with B. Glen Rotchin (1996)
* "Carbon Filter: Poems in Dedication" (1999 )
* "A Rich Garland: Poems forA. M. Klein ", ed. with B. Glen Rotchin (1999 )
* "Light Industry" (2000)
* "Hail" (2002 )
* "Ricochet" (2004)
* "September Rain" (2005 )
* "I Am Still the Boy"
* "Tiptoeing on the Mount"
* "A Dream of Birds", written with B. Glen Rotchin (2007)
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