Mary Dalton

Mary Dalton is a Canadian poet and educator.

Life
Mary Dalton was born in Lake View, Harbour Main, Newfoundland,, and raised in Conception Bay, Newfoundland in the 1950s. She received a B.A. in English from the University of Toronto, and an M.A. from Memorial University of Newfoundland. She did her doctoral study at the University of Liverpool as a Canada Council Fellow.

She edited the Newfoundland literary magazine TickleAce from 1980 to 1986.

Her collection Merrybegot (2003) was shortlisted for the 2004 all-genre Winterset Award, the 2004 Pat Lowther Memorial Poetry Award, and the 2005 Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage and History Award. Her fourth collection is Red Ledger (2006), published by Véhicule Press, which was shortlisted for the E.J. Pratt Poetry Award and the Atlantic Poetry Award. Her most recent collection is a set of riddles, Between You and the Weather (2008), published by Running the Goat Books.

She teaches teaches Anglo-Irish literature, creative writing, and Newfoundland literature at Memorial University. She has overseen production of four volumes of poetry by her students.

Recognition
Dalton has won various awards for her poetry, among them several Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards for Poetry as well as the inaugural TickleAce/Cabot Award for Poetry. Merrybegot (2003) was awarded the 2005 E.J. Pratt Poetry Award and the Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry.

Publications

 * The Time of Icicles. Breakwater, 1989.
 * Allowing the Light. Breakwater, 1993.
 * Merrybegot (2003)
 * Red Ledger. Véhicule Press, 2006.
 * Between You and the Weather. Running the Goat Books, 2008.

Edited

 * (co-editor) Wild on the Crest: Poems of the Sea: Newfoundland and Labrador, Jeroboam Books.