Douglas Burnet Smith


Douglas Burnet Smith is a Canadian poet. He is the author of fifteen volumes of poetry. His Voices from a Farther Room was nominated for the Governor General's Award, the most prestigious literary award in Canada. In addition to winning numerous poetry awards, in 1989 Mr. Smith won The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize. He has also represented Canada at international writers’ festivals and has served as the President of the League of Canadian Poets and as Chair of the Public Lending Right Commission of Canada. His poetry has also been published in numerous literary periodicals and anthologies. He was twice a member of the Poetry Jury for the Canada Council for the Arts' Governor General's Literary Awards, in 1988 and again in 2011 .
He currently teaches English literature and creative writing at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

Works

White Corvettes
Nine Kinds of Light
Learning to Count.
Sister Prometheus.
Helsinki Drift.
Chainletter.
The Killed.
Thaw.
Scarecrow.
Light of Our Bones.
Living in the Cave of the Mouth.
Ladder to the Moon.
The KnifeThrower's Partner.
Voices from a Farther Room.
Two Minutes for Holding.

Poetry published in anthologies

New Life in Dark Seas, ed. Stan Dragland, 126.
The Windhorse Reader: Choice Poems of ’93, ed. John Castlebury, 1993.
Let The Earth Take Note: First Anthology of the Milton Acorn Festival 1987-91, 143-45.
Section Lines, ed. Marc Duncan,, 197-98.
The Lyric Paragraph, ed. Robert Allen,, 144-46.
Arrivals: Canadian Poetry in the Eighties, ed. Bruce Meyer The Greenfield Review, 1986), 185.
Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada ed. Anne Compton, Laurence Hutchman, Ross Leckie and Robin McGrath 163-66.

Awards

Dallas Taylor Memorial Prize, 1972.
Chancellor's Prize for Poetry, University of Manitoba, 1973.
The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, 1989.
Governor General's Award for Poetry, finalist, 1993.