David Zieroth

 Dale Zieroth (born November 7, 1921) is a Canadian poet.

Life
He was born and raised in in Neepawa, Manitoba.

Recognition
The Fly in Autumn won the Governor General’s Award for English language Poetry in 2009 and was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Prize and the Acorn-Plantos Award for People’s Poet in 2010.

The Education of Mr. Whippoorwill selected as one of The Globe and Mail's top 100 books of 2003, and as one of the Outstanding Books of the Season by the Toronto Public Library, 2002.

Other awards won by Zieroth include:
 * National Magazine Award nominee 1999.
 * The Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize winner, 1998.
 * Canada India Village Aid Poetry Contest, 1987–88, finalist.
 * Listed in The Best of BC Books, 1977–1987 (Burnaby Public Library).

Publications

 * Clearing: Poems from a Journey. Anansi, 1973.
 * Mid-River. Anansi, 1981,
 * When the Stones Fly Up. Anansi, 1985.
 * The Weight of My Raggedy Skin. Polestar, 1991.
 * How I Joined Humanity at Last. Harbour, 1998.
 * The Tangled Bed (chapbook). Reference West, 2000.
 * Palominos and other poems (chapbook). Gaspereau, 2000.
 * Crows Do Not Have Retirement. Harbour, 2001.
 * The Education of Mr Whippoorwill: A Country Boyhood. Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 2002.
 * The Village of Sliding Time. Harbour Publishing, 2006.
 * Dust in the Brocade (chapbook). The Alfred Gustav Press, 2008.
 * Berlin Album (chapbook). Rubicon Press, 2009.
 * The Fly in Autumn. Harbour Publishing, 2009.
 * Hay Day Canticle. Leaf Press, 2010.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the author.