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Name
  
Monty Reid

Role
  
Poet

Education
  
University of Alberta


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Books
  
The Luskville Reductions, Disappointment Island, Flat side, Garden (dec Unit), Sweetheart of Mine

Monty reid reads poems from the luskville reductions at the tree reading series on october 11 2011


Monty Reid (born 1952 in Spalding, Saskatchewan) is a Canadian poet.

Contents

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Life

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He graduated from the University of Alberta, with an M.A. He lived in Drumheller, Alberta and worked at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, and has worked at the Canadian Museum of Nature since 1999.

Awards

  • 2007 Lampman-Scott Award

    • Works

  • "five SMALLER dreams", QWERTY, University of New Brunswick
  • "Moving the Diorama", Arc 56, Summer 2006
  • The Life of Riley. Saskatoon Saskatchewan: Thistledown Press. 1981. ISBN 978-0-920066-40-9. 
  • These Lawns (Red Deer AB: Red Deer College Press, 1990)
  • The Alternate Guide (Red Deer College Press, 1995)
  • Dog Sleeps. Edmonton, Alberta: NeWest Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-920897-35-5. 
  • Flat Side. Red Deer College Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-88995-188-4. 
  • Crawlspace. Toronto Ontario: House of Anansi. 1993. ISBN 978-0-88784-539-0. 
  • Disappointment Island. Chaudiere Books. 2006. ISBN 978-0-9781601-1-1. 
  • Garden. Chaudiere Books. 2014. ISBN 978-1-9281070-1-9. 

    • Chapbooks

  • Cuba A book (Ottawa ON: above/ground press, 2005)
  • Sweetheart of Mine (Toronto ON: BookThug, 2006).

    • Anthologies

  • Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets,

    • Reviews

    Twelve powerful meditations in Monty Reid's Flat Side explore the subtle connections between life and words, matter and consciousness, ourselves and the earth and sky. The first poem, "Burning the Back Issues," features the poet experiencing a sense of release as he casts into the fireplace back issues of American Poetry Review to warm his house on New Year's day.

    The thing that impressed me the most about Monty Reid's work is the sense of absolute distance that he evokes. With a title like Disappointment Island, this seems laughably obvious, but delving into the opening pages of his first section "Songs for the Mammoth Steppe," a whiff of something truly Romantic comes out at you.

    References

    Monty Reid Wikipedia
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