John Terpstra

John Terpstra (born in Brockville, Ontario) is a Canadian poet and carpenter.

During much of his childhood, he lived in Edmonton, Alberta, but moved back to Ontario to attend high school in Hamilton, where he lives today.

Education

* Trinity Christian College, Chicago
* University of Toronto

Awards and recognition

* 1988: Bressani Prize, "Forty Days and Forty Nights"
* 1992: CBC Radio Literary Competition, "Captain Kintail"
* 2004: poetry finalist, Governor General's Awards, "Disarmament"
* 2006: finalist, Charles Taylor Prize, BC Award for Canadian Non-fiction, "The Boys, or Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter"

Bibliography

* 1982: "Scrabbling for Repose" (Split Reed)
* 1987: "Forty Days and Forty Nights" (Netherlandic) ISBN 0-919417-10-8
* 1990: "Naked Trees" (Netherlandic) ISBN 0-919417-20-5
* 1992: "Captain Kintail" (Netherlandic) ISBN 0-919417-27-2
* 1997: "The Church Not Made With Hands" (Wolsak and Wynn) ISBN 0-919897-56-8
* 1998: "Devil's Punch Bowl" (St Thomas Poetry Series) ISBN 0-9697802-7-3
* 2000: "Restoration" (Gaspereau) ISBN 1-894031-34-2
* 2002: "Falling Into Place" (Gaspereau) ISBN 1-894031-60-1
* 2003: "Disarmament" (Gaspereau) ISBN 1-894031-73-3
* 2005: "Brendan Luck" (Gaspereau) ISBN 1-55447-013-7
* 2005: "The Boys, or, Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter" (Gaspereau) ISBN 1-55447-011-0
* 2006: "Two or Three Guitars: Selected Poems" (Gaspereau) ISBN 1-55447-026-9

External links

* [http://www.imagejournal.org/aom/terpstra_john.asp "Image Journal": John Terpstra] , September 2000, accessed 21 July 2006
* [http://www.poets.ca/linktext/direct/terpstra.htm League of Canadian Poets: John Terpstra] , accessed 21 July 2006