Roy Miki

Roy Akira Miki (born October 10, 1942) is a Canadian poet and scholar.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to second generation Japanese-Canadian parents, he attended the University of Manitoba, the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University, where he is currently a professor. He lives in Vancouver. He is very active is the Japanese-Canadian community and has fought hard for redress from the federal government for the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War.

In 2006, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. ^{[http://www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=4828]} In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Works

Poetry

* 1991: "In Saving Face: Poems Selected, 1976-1988"
* 1995: "Random Access File", poems
* 2001: "Surrender", winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for poetry
* 2006: "There"

Critical studies

* 1983: "The Prepoetics of William Carlos Williams"
* 1990: An annotated bibliography of George Bowering
* 1988: "Tracing the Paths", a book on bpNichol
* 2004: "Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice"

Editor

*1985: "This Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese-Canadians, 1941-1948" by Muriel Kitagawa (1985)
*1997: "Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy Kiyooka" (1997)

Other

* 1998: "Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing", essays

External links

* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0010902 Roy Akira Miki] at The Canadian Encyclopedia