- Phil Hall (poet)
Phil Hall (born 1953) is a Canadian
poet . [ [http://www.writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=1106&L=H The Writers' Union of Canada - Phil Hall ] ] He was raised on farms in the Kawarthas region of Ontario. His most recent book of poems is "An Oak Hunch". [ [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/hall/poems.htm Phil Hall, Poems ] ] [ [http://www.brickbooks.ca/BL-Hall.htm Phil Hall - Brick Books ] ] [ [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2006.php?t=1 The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry: Shortlist 2006 - Phil Hall ] ]Education
Hall holds an M.A. in
creative writing from theUniversity of Windsor .Career
Hall has taught
writing andliterature atYork University ,Ryerson University , the Kootenay School of Writing, and a number of other colleges. Furthermore, Phil Hall has been a poet in residence at theUniversity of Western Ontario , the Kingston Writer's Workshop, The Sage Hill Writing Experience in Saskatchewan, and elsewhere. He has been a small publisher of broadsides and chapbooks under his "Flat Singles Press" imprint since 1976.He has been the literary editor of "
This Magazine " and is editor and publisher of "Flat Singles Press". He teachespoetry atGeorge Brown College and English atSeneca College , both inToronto .Bibliography
* "Eighteen Poems", (1973)
* "Why I Haven't Written", (1985)
* "Amanuensis", (1989)
* "Pay-Dirt" (cassette, labour songs and poems), (1991)
* "The Unsaid", (1992) [ [http://www.brickbooks.ca/BL-Hall-unsaid.htm Phil Hall - Brick Books ] ]
* "Hearthedral: A Folk-Hermetic", (1996)
* "Trouble Sleeping", (2000) (shortlisted for the 2001Governor General's Award )
* "An Oak Hunch", (2005) (shortlisted for the 2006 CanadianGriffin Poetry Prize )References
External links
* [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2006.php?t=1 Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips]
* [http://www.bookthug.ca/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=apollinaire&Product_Code=3025&Category_Code=AA Hall's "White Porcupine"]
* [http://www.poetics.ca/poetics07/PhilHall.html Hall's "Ulterior Thule: Compulsion"]
* [http://www.verticalpool.com/underground.html Phil Hall interviews Antero Alli (1999)]
* [http://www.ffwdweekly.com/Issues/2006/0622/book1.htm Phil Hall on inspiration, language and the restraints of nationalism]
* [http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2007/09/12-or-20-questions-with-phil-hall-phil.html 12 or 20 questions: interview with Phil Hall]
* [http://www.poetics.ca/poetics08/OnPhilHall.html Phil Hall’s surrural: Ontario gothic, the killdeer, the music of failure and the distraction of shifting ground (poetics.ca)]
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