Don McKay is the multi-award-winning author of thirteen previous books of poetry, including Paradoxides; Strike/Slip, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize; and Camber- Selected Poems, a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and a Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year. Angular Unconformity, a collected poems, appeared from Goose Lane in 2014. McKay has taught poetry in universities across the country. He presently lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Praise for Don McKay: Don McKay walks us out to the uncertain ground between the known and unknown, between the names we have given things and things as they are. . . . McKay's meditations on time's evidence acquire a similar heft, proposing, in their discipline of mind and generosity of spirit, a way to be at home in the world. A book of patience, courage, and quiet eloquence. --Judges' Citation, 2007 Griffin Poetry Prize (Winner) He is an essential poet of our time. --Judges' Citation, 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize Don McKay is one of the very best Canadian poets. . . . He is a poet of a unique nature, a poet with a great capacity for beauty and grace. --Northern Poetry Review Reading McKay is a heightened and altering experience; it changes my personal relationship with language and silence. --Toronto Star