Brian Henderson


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Brian Henderson (born 1948) is a Canadian poet.

Life
Henderson, born in Kitchener, Ontario, has a PhD in Canadian Literature from York University. He has published many articles and reviews, and is also the Director of Wilfrid Laurier University Press and a photographer. Henderson has worked as a university instructor, a phone jack installer, a traffic counter, a shipper/receiver, and a rock drummer.

He lives with his wife, Charlene, son, Adrian and step son, Sean.

Literary activities
He is the author of eight collections of poetry and a deck of visual poem-cards. His work has been published in many small magazines. In the 1970s Henderson was a founding editor of RUNE.

His poetry and literary criticism has appeared in Arc, Antigonish Review, Canadian Forum, Canadian Literature, CVII, Descant, ECW, The fiddlehead, Prism, Quarry, Rampike, Rune (of which he was a founding editor for its decade of existence), Scrivener and Writ since 1974.

Recognition
His poetry collection Nerve Language was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2007.

Poetry

 * The Expanding Room. Black Moss Press, 1977.
 * Paracelsus. Porcupine's Quill, 1977.
 * The Veridical Book of the Silent Planet. Aya Press, 1978.
 * Migration of Light. General Publishing, 1983.
 * The Alphamiricon. Underwhich Editions, 1987.
 * Smoking Mirror. ECW Press, 1990.
 * Year Zero. Brick Books, 1995.
 * Light in Dark Objects. Ekstasis Editions, 2000.
 * Nerve Language. Pedlar Press, 2007.

Anthologized

 * Inside the Poem (edited by W.H. New). Oxford University Press, 1992.
 * The Lyric Paragraph (edited by Robert Allen). D.C. Books, 1987.
 * The Toronto Collection (edited by Leslie Nutting). Manoeuvers Press, 1984.
 * Twenty Canadian Poets of the Eighties (edited by Ken Norris). Anansi, 1984.

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