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Brian Bartlett

 

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First name
Brian
Last name
Bartlett
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Biography
Brian Bartlett has published 8 collections and 8 chapbooks of poetry, as well as 4 books of prose, from presses such as Goose Lane, Gaspereau, McGill-Queens, Ekstasis, Palimpsest, Frontenac House and (in England) Peterloo Poets. Three of his chapbooks and one of his collections are of haiku and senryu. After growing up in New Brunswick, he lived for 15 years in Montreal, then moved to Halifax to teach Creative Writing and various fields of literature at Saint Mary's University, from which he retired in 2018 after 28 years of teaching there. Bartlett's prose includes 3 books of nature writing and one of his writings on poetry. Bartlett has also edited many books, including three volumes in Porcupine's Quill's "Essential" series, a book of prose on Don McKay, and Alden Nowlan's Collected Poems. For more details see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Bartlett
 

PUBLICATIONS AND RECOGNITION

Books and other publications
POETRY COLLECTIONS
The Afterlife of Trees. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2002.
The Astonishing Room. Okotoks, Alberta, Frontenac House, 2024.
Granite Erratics. Victoria: Ekstasis, 1997.
Planet Harbor. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 1989.
Potato Blossom Road: Seven Montages. Victoria: Ekstasis, 2013.
Underwater Carpentry. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 1993.
Wanting the Day: Selected Poems. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 2003; Calstock, Cornwall, UK: Peterloo Poets, 2004.
The Watchmaker’s Table. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 2008.

POETRY CHAPBOOKS
Being Charlie. Vancouver: Alfred Gustav, 2009.
Brother's Insomnia. Fredericton: New Brunswick Chapbooks, 1972.
Cattail Week. Montreal: Villeneuve, 1982.
Finches for the Wake. Fredericton: Fiddlehead, 1971.
Keatonesque. Kingston, ON: Thee Hellbox Press, 2017.
Safety Last. Kentville, NS: Gaspereau, 2019.
Shakespearean Halifax. North Vancouver, BC, 2021.
Travels of the Watch. Kentville, NS: Gaspereau, 2004.

PROSE
All Manner of Tackle: Living with Poetry. Windsor, ON: Palimpsest Press, 2017.
Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal. Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2017.
Daystart Songflight: A Morning Journal. Lawrencetown, NS: Pottersfield Press, 2021.
Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar. Markham, ON: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2014.

"'A Many-veined Leaf': Minutiae and Multiplicity in Brian Bartlett's Poetry." Interview. Anne Compton, Meetings with Maritime Poets: Interviews. Markham: Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2006.
"Introduction." Charles G. D. Roberts, Red Fox. 1905. Halifax, NS: Formac, 2008.


EDITED BOOKS
Bright with Invisible History: A William Bauer Reader. Woodstock, NB: Chapel Street Editions, 2020.
The Child Alone. Brian Bartlett ed. With art work by Laura Bartlett. Victoria: Frog Hollow Press, 2015.
Collected Poems of Alden Nowlan. Brian Bartlett ed. Fredericton: Icehouse Poetry, 2017
Don McKay: Essays on His Works. Brian Bartlett ed. Toronto: Guernica, 2006.
Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski. Brian Bartlett ed. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2007.
The Essential Dorothy Roberts. Brian Bartlett ed. Erin, ON: Porcupine's Quill, 2018.
The Essential James Reaney. Brian Bartlett ed. Erin: Porcupine’s Quill, 2009.
The Essential Robert Gibbs. Brian Bartlett ed. Erin: Porcupine's Quill, 2012.
In Loving Riddles: Selected Poetry of Joseph Sherman, Brian Bartlett, ed. Charlottetown: Acorn Press, 2014.
Awards and other achievements
Winner of The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize 1992, for "Underwater Carpentry."
Winner of The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize 1999, for "Hawthornden Improvisations."
Winner of Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize 2001, for "Foot-doctor for the Homeless."
Shortlisted for Atlantic Poetry Prize 2003, for The Afterlife of Trees.
Winner of Atlantic Poetry Prize 2004, for Wanting the Day: Selected Poems.
Winner of Acorn-Plantos Award for Poetry's Poetry 2008, for The Watchmaker's Table.
Shortlisted for J. M. Abraham Prize for Poetry 2015, for Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar.
Shortlisted for Al and Eurithe Poetry Prize 2025, for The Astonishing Room
Poetic forms and styles
  • Haiku
  • Long poem
  • Print poetry
  • Prose poetry
Other writing expertise
  • Creative non-fiction
  • Criticism
  • Environmental writing
  • Nature writing
 

BOOK THIS POET TODAY

Contact poet directly
bbartlett6364@gmail.com
for readings and participation in festivals
International bookings
In the past I've done readings in various locations in England (London, Calstock, Exeter, York, Leeds, Manchester) and in Brussels, Belgium, as well as in the U.S. (Flagstaff, AZ; Eugene, OR; Kansas, CA; Lawrence, KS; Fort Kent, ME). I am keen to participate in future international readings and other literary events.
Editorial services
  • Poetry manuscript editing