David Manicom

David Manicom. Courtesy Oolichan Books.

David Alton Manicom (born 1960) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and diplomat.

Life

Manicom was born and raised in Ingersoll, Ontario.

He attended the University of Toronto and McGill University in Montreal.

Married with 3 children, he lives in Ottawa, Ontario with his wife and youngest child. He has also lived in Aylmer (Quebec), Moscow, Islamabad, Beijing, Geneva, and New Delhi.

He has contributed to numerous publications, including Rubicon, AWOL, Words Apart and Quarry.

Recognition

Manicom's collection The Burning Eaves (2003) was a finalist for the 2004 Governor General's Award for English language poetry.

Publications

Poetry

• Sense of Season. Victoria, BC: Porcepic, 1988.
• Theology of Swallows. Lantzville, BC: Oolichan, 1991.
• The Older Graces. Lantzville, BC: Oolichan, 1997.
• The Burning Eaves: Poems. Lantzville, BC: Oolichan, 2003.
• Desert Rose, Butterfly Storm. (Lantzville, B.C.: Oolichan, 2009.

Novels

• The School at Chartres. Lantzville, BC: Oolichan, 2005.
• Anna's Shadow. Montreal: Vehicule (Esplanade), 2008.

Short fiction

• Ice in Dark Water. Montreal: Vehicule, 1997.

Non-fiction

• Words Apart: Heaney and Simmons. Dublin: Graph, 1987.
• Progeny of Ghosts: Travels in Russia and the old empire. Lantzville, BC: Oolichan, 1998.

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See also

• List of Canadian poets

External links

Audio / video

• David Manicom at YouTube

Books

• David Manicom at Amazon.com

About

• David Manicom at Oolichan Books.
• David Manicom in the QWF Literary Database of Quebec English-speaking Authors.
• "Meet the poet-diplomat in Kenney's stolen bag," Macleans, March 30, 2009.
• review of A Theology of Swallows
• review of The Burning Eaves at Books in Canada