Susan Ioannou



Susan Ioannou (born 1944) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto, Ontario. She was previously an English teacher at Bloor Collegiate Institute, for six years during the 1970s. From 1980 to 1989, she served as Associate Editor of Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly/Magazine, and into the 1990s, led poetry workshops for the Toronto Board of Education, Ryerson University, and University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. In 1985, she founded the writers' resource Wordwrights Canada, and in 1988, created its poetry course, now the online Lessons in Writing the Poem.

Poetry

 * Motherpoems - 1985, 2011 (PDF)
 * Familiar Faces/Private Grief - 1986, 2011 (PDF)
 * Clarity Between Clouds: Poems of Midlife - 1991
 * Where the Light Waits - 1996
 * Read-Aloud Poems - 2001, 2011 (PDF)
 * Coming Home: An Old Love Story - 2004, 2011 (PDF)
 * Who Would Be a God? (with Lenny Everson) - 2004
 * Balkan Poems - 2005 (PDF)
 * O Canada - 2005 (PDF)
 * The Merla Poems - 2006, 2011 (PDF)
 * Catalysts & Catastrophes: Feline Poems - 2007 (PDF)
 * Looking Through Stone: Poems about the Earth - 2007, 2010 (eBook)

Nonfiction

 * A Magical Clockwork: The Art of Writing the Poem - 2000
 * Holding True: Essays on Being a Writer - 2008, 2010 (eBook)
 * Writing Reader-Friendly Poems Plus Writing Exercises - 2011 (eBook)

Children's literature

 * The Hidden Valley Mystery - 2010 (eBook)
 * A Real Farm Girl - 1998, 2010 (eBook)
 * Polly's Punctuation Primer - 1994, 2010 (PDF)

Fiction

 * Nine to Ninety: Stories across the generations - 2009, 2010 (eBook)