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        Featured Author: Michael Yates










        Yates was born in the Ozarks of Missouri, raised Germany, Mexico, and various places in the states. He obtained his B.A. and M.A. at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, Phd. Comparative Literature, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Yates has been a Canadian Citizen since 1972. Occupation includes teaching at numerous universities in the states and Canada, and, more recently, a prison guard in the correctional system of British Columbia.







        "I have lived in British Columbia for half my life, most of it in various communities of the Lower Mainland except for three years' residence in the Queen Charlotte Islands. A portion of almost every year has been spent in the bush of British Columbia, the territories, Alaska, and the high arctic collecting imagery."




        The Poetry of Michael Yates






        It Hardly Matters


        Lioness Tiergarten


        Maria


        Poem


        Scorpion


        The Ice Rider


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        BOOKS:

        SPIRAL OF MIRRORS (poetry, Golden Quill Press, 1967); HUNT IN AN UNMAPPED INTERIOR (poetry, Golden Quill Press, 1967); CANTICLE FOR ELECTRONIC MUSIC (poetry, Morriss, 1967);MAN IN THE GLASS OCTOPUS (fiction, Sono Nis Press, 1968 & 1970);THE GREAT BEAR LAKE MEDITATIONS(poetry, Oberon, 1970);PARALLAX (poetry, Sono Nis Press, 1971); THE ABSTRACT BEAST (fiction and drama, Sono Nis Press, 1971); NOTHING SPEAKS FOR THE BLUE MORAINES (poetry, Sono Nis Press, 1973); BREATH OF THE SNOW LEOPARD (poetry, Sono Nis Press, 1974); NIGHT FREIGHT (Drama, Playwrights Canada, 1975); THE QUALICUM PHYSICS (poetry, Kanchenjunga, 1975); FAZES IN ELSEWHEN (fiction, Intermedia, 1976); ESOX NOBILIOR NON ESOX LUCIUS (poetry, Fiddlehead Books, 1978);FUGUE BRANCUSI( poetry, Sono Nis Press, 1983); INSEL: The Queen Charlotte Islands Meditations (poetry, Penumbra Press, 1983);VARIOUS NORTHERLY MEDITATIONS (poetry, League of Canadian Poets,1984); THE COMPLETELY COLLAPSIBLE PORTABLE MAN: Selected Shorter Lyrics (poetry, Mosaic Press,1984). OITO POEMAS, tr. Rosa and Eduardo Bettencourt Pinto(poetry, Lisbon, SeteEstrelo,1985); SCHEDULES OF SILENCE (poetry, Pulp Press,1986); TORQUE (fiction, Pulp Press Book Publishers, 1987); TORPOR (fiction, Cacanadadada Press Ltd, 1989); LIGHT LIKE A SUMMONS, ed. (anthology of five poets, Cacanadadada Press, 1990). LINE SCREW:Memoir of a Prison Guard ( McClelland & Stewart, fall 1994).


        DISTINCTIONS:

        Major Hopwood Award for poetry 1964; Major Hopwood Award for Drama 1964; Authors Anonymous Competition Winner (poetry 1956, fiction 1957); University of Missouri at Kansas city Poetry Prize, 1960; THE FAR POINT contributor's prize, 1970; International Broadcasting Award, 1960; International Broadcasting Award, 1961; THE LOOK OF BOOKS AWARD , 1972 (three categories : editorship, design, cover photofor VOLVOX); several Canada Council Awards for writing, photography, and research. 1987: Honary Doctorate UMKC, Alumni Achievement Award for Arts and Sciences UMKC. THE WRITERS CHOICE AWARD 1988 (presented Olympics Arts Festival); nominated 1990 for CASPAR award. THE VANCOUVER AWARD for LINESCREW, spring of 1996.

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