B. W. Powe

Bruce William Powe BA, MA (born 23 March 1955 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian author. Lived in Toronto from 1959 until 1996; he attended York University for English studies where in 1977 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Powe received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1981; he studied there with Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye. He currently teaches English in the Department of English at York University.

In 1997 he moved to Stouffville, Ontario, where he lives with his two children, Kate and Thomas.

Powe has written nationally-seen columns for "The Globe and Mail" newspaper, besides his various essays, poetry and novels. He has been called "way cool" by the "Globe and Mail", "one of our finest cultural commentators" by the "Toronto Star", a poet who can write "hair-raising lines" by "The Globe and Mail" and who takes "considerable, unfashionable risks" by The Malahat Review, "a visionary--a modern day Magellan" by The Montreal Gazette, "an intellectual terrorist" by Barbara Amiel in MacLean's. His work has been profiled on CBC-TV, TVO, Bravo-TV, and CTV.

His book of poems, The Unsaid Passing, was shortlisted for The ReLit Prize in 2006.

He has been the program director for three signficant events at York University in Toronto: Marshall McLuhan: What if he Was Right? (1997), The Trudeau Era (1999) and Living Literacies (2002).

He is currently at work founding the McLuhan Initiative for the Study of Literacies at York University. [ [http://www.mcluhanliteracies.ca/page16/page24/page24.html McLuhan Initiative for the Study of Literacies, Staff] ]

Bibliography

* 1984: "A Climate Charged" (Mosaic) hardcopy ISBN 0-88962-259-0, paperback ISBN 0-88962-258-2
* 1987: "The Solitary Outlaw" (Lester & Orpen Dennys) ISBN 0-88619-141-6
* 1989: "Noise of Time" in The Glenn Gould Profile, in Collections Canada, National Library Archives
* 1993: "A Tremendous Canada of Light" (Coach House) ISBN 0-88910-415-8
* 1995: "Outage: A Journey into Electric City" (Random House) ISBN 0-394-22124-9
* 1997: "The Solitary Outlaw" revised, expanded (Somerville House)ISBN 1-895897-79-3
* 1997: "A Canada of Light" revised, expanded (Somerville House) ISBN 1-895897-89-0
*2004: "The Living Literacies" Print Record, editor (Coach House) ISBN 0-9736828-0-9
* 2005: "The Unsaid Passing" (Guernica) ISBN 1-55071-209-8
* 2006: "Towards a Canada of Light" (Thomas Allen) ISBN 0-88762-228-3
* 2007: "Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and The Rose" (Thomas Allen) ISBN 0-887-62281-X
*Forthcoming: "These Shadows Remain: A Fable" (Guernica) 2009

References

External links

* [http://www.bwpowe.org B.W. Powe official website] (inactive as of 17 September 2008)
* [http://www.media-studies.ca/articles/powe.htm Soules, Marshall: Bruce Powe & The Solitary Outlaws]
* [http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/glenngould/028010-502.10-e.html The Glenn Gould Archive (Library and Archives Canada): "Noise of Time"]
* [http://www.exilequarterly.com/164b.html "15 Years in Exile", Volume 16, Number 4] (Winter 1992)
* [http://www.spiritbookword.net/spirit/an_interview_with_bw_powe.shtml Spiritbookword: "An Interview with B.W. Powe"]
* http://www.imaginingtoronto.com/2007week3slidesGEOG4280.ppt
* [http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000103.htm York University: B.W. Powe fonds] , accessed 17 July 2006
* [http://www.arts.yorku.ca/english/people/powe.html York University: B.W. Powe] , accessed 17 July 2006