Richard Greene (poet)



Richard Thomas Greene (born July 17, 1961) is a Canadian poet.

Life
Green was born in St. John's, Newfoundland. A resident of Cobourg, Ontario, he teaches English literature at the University of Toronto.

Recognition
His 2009 collection Boxing the Compass won the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry in 2010.

Poetry

 * Republic of Solitude: Poems 1984-1994. St. John’s: Breakwater, 1994.
 * Crossing the Straits. Toronto: St. Thomas Poetry Series, 2004.
 * Boxing the Compass. Montreal: Signal Editions, 2009.

Non-fiction

 * Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century Women's Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
 * Edith Sitwell: Avant Garde Poet, English Genius. London: Virago, 2011.
 * The Works of Mary Leapor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
 * Graham Greene: A Life in Letters. London: Little, Brown, 2007.

Edited

 * Selected Letters of Edith Sitwell. London: Virago, 1997;. Revised edition, 1998.

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the University of Toronto.