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D. C. Reid : Biography
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Dennis Colin Reid was born in Calgary in 1952. His first collection of poetry, The Women Who Surround Me was published by Ekstasis Editions in 1991. This was followed by two other collections of poetry: Open 24 Hours (1997, Broken Jaw Press) and Love and Other Things That Hurt (1999, Black Moss Press).
Poems
- Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end
- Occipital, Parietal, Sphenoid, Frontal, Temporal, Ethmoid
- Tell Me What I Hear Through A Telescope The Wrong Way
- Always Leaning Through The Edge Of Myself And Feeling Nowhere
- What Happens When We Tend Animals More Intelligent Than Ourselves
- Saying Goodbye To Pain
Reid has also published a non-fiction book, How To Catch Salmon (1995, Orca), and a novel, The Knife Behind The Gills (1995, Ekstasis Editions).
His poems and stories have appeared in most Canadian magazines.
He is a past B.C. Representative for the League of Canadian Poets, and a past President of the Federation of B.C. Writers.
D. C. Reid's works copyright © to the author.
