Shane Rhodes

Shane Rhodes is a Canadian poet.

Life
Rhodes graduated from the University of New Brunswick. He lives in Ottawa, Canada.

As the 2008 winner of the Lampman-Scott Award for Poetry, Shane Rhodes turned over half of the $1,500 prize money to the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, a First Nations health centre, according to a 2008 report by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. "Taking that money wouldn't have been right," Rhodes said. The CBC reported that Rhodes felt "Scott's legacy as a civil servant overshadows his work as a pioneer of Canadian poetry."

Reviews
PoetryReviews.ca: "Shane Rhodes takes a lot of poetic risks in The Wireless Room (NeWest 2000). Rhodes is not governed by any one style, form, language, or theme; he is about variation, innovation, intelligence, and electricity."

About Rhodes' Err, his fourth book, Sonnet L'Abbé writes in the Globe & Mail:
 * Shane Rhodes shows off an XXX-ly sexual, biochemically lexical textual dexterity in his latest collection of poems, Err. Everything we've seen so far from Rhodes sparkles with homophonic brilliance, and Err is no exception. The pleasure and challenge of Err is in the implications of its shifting dazzle. His poems, studded with puns and rhymes, shine with lights that turn from glitzy to seamy, from champagne crystal to syringe bevel, from the winking rivet of black leather machismo to the “wrench's chrome flash” of an auto mechanic's grunting masculinity. In Err, Rhodes dives into the Dionysian realms of drink, dangerous sex and dirty money, using his sensual speech to trace the movement of spirit and song through these worldly, dark and high-tech spheres.

Recognition

 * Alberta Book Award for poetry, for The Wireless Room
 * 2003 Archibald Lampman Award, for Holding Pattern
 * 2008 Lampman-Scott Award, for The Bindery
 * The 2009 PK Page Founders Award for Poetry from the Malahat Review
 * Winner of the 34th National Magazine Awards for poetry (2011)

Works

 * "To Elizabeth Bishop", Lemon Hound
 * "A Picture By Brueghel: Landscape With Icarus Falling", The Walrus, May 2005


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Anthologies

 * The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008. Stephanie Bolster, ed. Tightrope Books, 2008.
 * Best Gay Poetry 2008. Lawrence Schimel, ed. A Midsummer Night’s Press: New York, 2008.
 * New Canadian Poetry. Even Jones, ed.  Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2000.
 * The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008. Stephanie Bolster, ed. Tightrope Books, 2008.
 * Best Gay Poetry 2008. Lawrence Schimel, ed. A Midsummer Night’s Press: New York, 2008.
 * New Canadian Poetry. Even Jones, ed.  Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2000.

Criticism

 * "Field Notes: Shane Rhodes reviews The Natural Selection by Christopher Dewdney", Jacket 18
 * "Matrimony of the Sign: The Ideas and the Things in William Carlos Williams' Paterson" William Carlos Williams and the Language of Poetry, National Poetry Foundation, 2002.
 * "Buggering with History: Sexual Warfare and Historical Reconstruction in Timothy Findley's The Wars." Canadian Literature, 1998.
 * "Frontier Fiction: Reading Books in M. G. Vassanji's The Book of Secrets." Ariel: A Review of International English Literature, 1998.
 * "An Interview with M.G. Vassanji." Studies in Canadian Literature, 1997.