John Pass
John Pass is a Canadian poet. He has lived in Canada since 1953, and was educated at the University of British Columbia.
He has published 19 books of poetry since 1971. His book Stumbling in the Bloom won the 2006 Governor General's Award for English poetry. His most recent book "crawlspace" won the Dorothy Livesay Prize in 2012.
Pass taught English at Capilano University from 1975 to 2007. He lives on BC's Sunshine Coast near Sakinaw Lake with his wife, poet, essayist and novelist Theresa Kishkan
Four of his books of poetry form a linked quartet under the overall title, "At Large":
- The Hour's Acropolis
- Radical Innocence
- Water Stair
- Stumbling in the Bloom
Works
- Taking Place, 1971
- The Kenojuak Prints, 1973
- AIR 18, 1973
- Port of Entry, 1975
- Love's Confidence, 1976
- Blossom: An Accompaniment, 1978
- There Go the Cars, 1979
- An Arbitrary Dictionary, 1984
- Rugosa, 1991
- The Hour's Acropolis, 1991 shortlisted for the 1993 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- Radical Innocence, 1994
- Mud Bottom, 1996
- Water Stair, 2000 shortlisted for the 2000 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry and for the 2001 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
- nowrite.doc, 2004
- Twinned Towers, 2005
- Stumbling in the Bloom, 2005 winner of the 2006 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry
- Self Storage, 2011
- crawlspace, 2011 winner of the 2012 Dorothy Livesay Prize
- Forecast , 2015
