Don McKay reads from Strike/Slip

Canadian poet Don McKay reads the poems "Astonished -" and "Petrified -" from Strike/Slip, winner of the 2007 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize.
A prolific and renowned Canadian poet, teacher, editor, and publisher, McKay is the 2024 Griffin Lifetime Recognition Award recipient.
McKay's books of poetry include Birding, or Desire (1983), Night Field (1991), Apparatus (1997), Another Gravity (2000), Strike/Slip (2006), Paradoxides (2012) and Lurch (2021). Camber: selected poems, appeared in 2004. Five of his books have been nominated for Governor General’s Awards, and two of them-Night Field and Another Gravity-received that award. He has been nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize three times and received it for Strike/Slip in 2007.
Between 1975 and 2018 McKay served as co-editor and co-publisher with Brick Books. After teaching English and Creative Writing at the Universities of Western Ontario and New Brunswick for twenty-seven years, he now writes full time and lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Instituted in 2006, the Griffin trustees bestow the Lifetime Recognition Award to international artists working in poetry.
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