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Heather Spears

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Heather Spears

Heather Spears in 2009. Courtesy Purple Mountain Poetry.

Heather Spears (born 1934) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and artist who lives in Denmark.

Life[]

Educated at the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver School of Art, Spears emigrated in 1962 to Denmark, where she also studied at the University of Copenhagen.

Recognition[]

Spears won her 1st Pat Lowther Award in 1987 for How to Read Faces.

In 1989 her collection The Word for Sand won both the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry and the Pat Lowther Award.

She won a 3rd Pat Lowther Award in 2002 for Required Reading: A witness in words and drawings to the Reena Virk Trials, 1998-2000.

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • Asylum Poems, and others. Toronto: Emblem Books, 1958.
  • The Danish Portraits. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1967.
  • From the Inside. Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1972.
  • Drawings from the Newborn: Poems and drawings of infants in crisis. Port Angeles, WA: Ben-Simon, 1986.
  • How to Read Faces. Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn, 1986.
  • The Word for Sand. Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn, 1988.
  • Human Acts. Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn, 1991.
  • The Panum Poems: Drawings and poems. Victoria, BC: Ekstasis Editions, 1996.
  • Poems Selected and New. Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn, 1998.
  • Required Reading: A witness in words and drawings to the Reena Virk trials, 1998-2000 (poems and drawings). Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn, 2000.
  • I Can Still Draw. Toronto: Wolsak & Wynn, 2008.

Novels[]

  • Moonfall. Victoria, BC: Beach Holme, 1991.
  • The Children of Atwar. Victoria, BC: Beach Holme 1993.
  • The Taming. Edmonton, AB: Tesseract Books, 1996.
  • The Flourish: Murder in the family. Victoria BC: Ekstasis Editions, 2003.
    • also published as A Muted Voice: Murder in the family Netherlands: Saga-Whyte Publishers, 2009.
  • The Strong Box. Victoria, BC: Ekstasis Editions, 2014.

Non-fiction[]

  • The Creative Eye: An artist's guide to unlocking the mysteries of visual perception. London: Arcturus, 2007.

Art[]

  • Drawn from the Fire: Children of the intifada (drawings). Copenhagen & Richmond, BC: privately published, 1989.
  • Massacre: Drawings from Jerusalem, October 8-28, 1990. Copenhagen: privately published, 1990.
  • Line by Line: An anthology of Canadian poets (drawings of Canadian poets by Spears, with their poems). Victoria, BC: Ekstasis Editions, 2002.
Heather_Spears_---_Required_Reading_Reena_Virk_Trials,_1998-2000

Heather Spears --- Required Reading Reena Virk Trials, 1998-2000


Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[1]

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References[]

Notes[]

  1. ↑ Search results = au:Heather Spears, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Mar. 1, 2015.

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