Phil Hall (poet)

Phil Hall (born 1953) is a Canadian poet. [ [http://www.writersunion.ca/ww_profile.asp?mem=1106&L=H The Writers' Union of Canada - Phil Hall ] ] He was raised on farms in the Kawarthas region of Ontario. His most recent book of poems is "An Oak Hunch". [ [http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/hall/poems.htm Phil Hall, Poems ] ] [ [http://www.brickbooks.ca/BL-Hall.htm Phil Hall - Brick Books ] ] [ [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2006.php?t=1 The Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry: Shortlist 2006 - Phil Hall ] ]

Education

Hall holds an M.A. in creative writing from the University of Windsor.

Career

Hall has taught writing and literature at York University, Ryerson University, the Kootenay School of Writing, and a number of other colleges. Furthermore, Phil Hall has been a poet in residence at the University of Western Ontario, the Kingston Writer's Workshop, The Sage Hill Writing Experience in Saskatchewan, and elsewhere. He has been a small publisher of broadsides and chapbooks under his "Flat Singles Press" imprint since 1976.

He has been the literary editor of "This Magazine" and is editor and publisher of "Flat Singles Press". He teaches poetry at George Brown College and English at Seneca College, both in Toronto.

Bibliography

* "Eighteen Poems", (1973)
* "Why I Haven't Written", (1985)
* "Amanuensis", (1989)
* "Pay-Dirt" (cassette, labour songs and poems), (1991)
* "The Unsaid", (1992) [ [http://www.brickbooks.ca/BL-Hall-unsaid.htm Phil Hall - Brick Books ] ]
* "Hearthedral: A Folk-Hermetic", (1996)
* "Trouble Sleeping", (2000) (shortlisted for the 2001 Governor General's Award)
* "An Oak Hunch", (2005) (shortlisted for the 2006 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)

References

External links

* [http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2006.php?t=1 Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips]
* [http://www.bookthug.ca/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=apollinaire&Product_Code=3025&Category_Code=AA Hall's "White Porcupine"]
* [http://www.poetics.ca/poetics07/PhilHall.html Hall's "Ulterior Thule: Compulsion"]
* [http://www.verticalpool.com/underground.html Phil Hall interviews Antero Alli (1999)]
* [http://www.ffwdweekly.com/Issues/2006/0622/book1.htm Phil Hall on inspiration, language and the restraints of nationalism]
* [http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2007/09/12-or-20-questions-with-phil-hall-phil.html 12 or 20 questions: interview with Phil Hall]
* [http://www.poetics.ca/poetics08/OnPhilHall.html Phil Hall’s surrural: Ontario gothic, the killdeer, the music of failure and the distraction of shifting ground (poetics.ca)]