David Helwig: Essays on His Works (Essential Writers Series) - Softcover

Ingrid Ruthig

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1771832908 ISBN 13: 9781771832908

Publisher: Guernica Editions (CA), 2018

Synopsis

To date, Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist David Helwig has published close to fifty books and edited numerous others. He has written for television and radio, worked at the CBC, taught at Queen's University, been Poet Laureate of Prince Edward Island, and named to the Order of Canada. Yet, he remains little known. This volume is the first to gather new essays, an interview, and earlier material -- by George Fetherling, Douglas Glover, D.G. Jones, Simon Lloyd, Tom Marshall, rob mclennan, Shane Neilson, Ingrid Ruthig, Mark Sampson, and Lorraine M. York-- in order to introduce and explore Helwig's body of work, while documenting the broad range of his literary talents and accomplishments.

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About the Author

Ingrid Ruthig is the author of This Being (Fitzhenry & Whiteside), which won the League of Canadian Poets 2017 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and of Slipstream (ARKITEXWERKS, 2011), as well as the editor of The Essential Anne Wilkinson (Porcupines Quill, 2014) and Richard Outram: Essays on His Works (Guernica Editions, 2011). Her work has also appeared in The Best Canadian Poetry, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, and CNQ, among others. A 2018 Hawthornden Fellow, she lives near Toronto. Visit ingridruthig.com for more.

From the Back Cover

To date, Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist David Helwig has published close to fifty books and edited numerous others. He has also written for television and radio, worked at the CBC, taught at Queen's University, been Poet Laureate of Prince Edward Island, and was named to the Order of Canada. Yet, he remains little known. This volume is the first to gather new essays, an interview, and earlier material - by George Fetherling, Douglas Glover, D.G. Jones, Simon Lloyd, Tom Marshall, rob mclennan, Shane Neilson, Ingrid Ruthig, Mark Sampson, and Lorraine M. York - in order to introduce and explore Helwig's body of work, while documenting the broad range of his literary talents and accomplishments.

Edition details

• Publisher: Guernica Editions (CA)
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1771832908
• ISBN 13: 9781771832908
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 146