Phil Hall (poet)

Phil Hall (born 1953) is an award-winning Canadian poet.

Education
Hall was raised on farms in the Kawarthas region of Ontario. He holds an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Windsor.

Career
Hall has taught writing and literature at York University, Ryerson University, the Kootenay School of Writing, and a number of other colleges. Hall has been a poet in residence at the University of Western Ontario, the Kingston Writer's Workshop, The Sage Hill Writing Experience in Saskatchewan and elsewhere. He has been a small publisher of broadsides and chapbooks under his Flat Singles Press imprint since 1976.

He has been the literary editor of This Magazine and was publisher of Flat Singles Press. He taught poetry at George Brown College and English at Seneca College, both in Toronto.

His most recent books of poems are An Oak Hunch  , White Porcupine, The Little Seamstress and Killdeer.

Recognition
In 2011, Hall won Canada's Governor General's Award for Poetry, for his collection, Killdeer, a work the jury called "a masterly modulation of the elegiac through poetic time." Killdeer won the 2012 Trillium Book Award and was also shortlisted for the 2012 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize.

Publications

 * Eighteen Poems, (1973)
 * Why I Haven't Written, (1985) (Brick Books)
 * Amanuensis, (1989) (Brick Books)
 * The Unsaid, (1992) (Brick Books)
 * Hearthedral: A Folk-Hermetic, (1996) (Brick Books)
 * Trouble Sleeping, (2000) (Brick Books) (shortlisted for the 2001 Governor General's Award)
 * An Oak Hunch, (2005) (Brick Books) (shortlisted for the 2006 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)
 * White Porcupine (2007) (BookThug)
 * The Little Seamstress, (2010) (Pedlar Press)
 * Killdeer. (2011), (BookThug) (Winner, 2011 Governor General's Award, Poetry, shortlisted for the 2012 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)