B. W. Powe

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Bruce William Powe BA, MA (born 23 March 1955 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian author. Lived in Toronto from 1959 until 1996; he attended York University for English studies where in 1977 graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree. Powe received a Master of Arts degree from the University of Toronto in 1981; he studied there with Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye. He currently teaches English in the Department of English at York University.

In 1997 he moved to Stouffville, Ontario, where he lives with his two children, Kate and Thomas.

Powe has written nationally-seen columns for The Globe and Mail newspaper, besides his various essays, poetry and novels. He has been called "way cool" by the Globe and Mail, "one of our finest cultural commentators" by The Toronto Star, a poet who can write "hair-raising lines" by The Globe and Mail and who takes "considerable, unfashionable risks" by The Malahat Review, "a visionary--a modern day Magellan" by The Montreal Gazette, "an intellectual terrorist" by Barbara Amiel in MacLean's... His work has been profiled on CBC-TV, TVO, Bravo-TV, and CTV.

His book of poems, The Unsaid Passing, was shortlisted for The ReLit Prize in 2006.

His work crosses genres, and works on the outer edges of contemporary ideas on electronics, literary, identity, soul, being, the cosmos. He has explored in his writings the terrifying and possibly sacred crossroads, cruxes, of identity and electricity--being and the e-cosmos. This work has been highly controversial--considered at times unclassifiable.^{[neutrality disputed]}

He has been the program director for three signficant events at York University in Toronto: Marshall McLuhan: What if he Was Right? (1997) The Trudeau Era (1999) Living Literacies (2002)

He is currently at work founding the Marshall McLuhan Centre for the Study of Multiple Literacies at York University.

[edit] Bibliography

1984: A Climate Charged (Mosaic) hardcopy ISBN 0-88962-259-0, paperback ISBN 0-88962-258-2
1987: The Solitary Outlaw (Lester & Orpen Dennys) ISBN 0-88619-141-6
1989: Noise of Time in The Glenn Gould Profile, in Collections Canada, National Library Archives
1993: A Tremendous Canada of Light (Coach House) ISBN 0-88910-415-8
1995: Outage: A Journey into Electric City (Random House) ISBN 0-394-22124-9
1997: The Solitary Outlaw revised, expanded (Somerville House)
1997: A Canada of Light revised, expanded (Somerville House) ISBN 1-895897-89-0
2004: The Living Literacies Print Record, editor (Coach House)
2005: The Unsaid Passing (Guernica) ISBN 1-55071-209-8
2006: Towards a Canada of Light (Thomas Allen) ISBN 0-88762-228-3
2007: Mystic Trudeau: The Fire and The Rose (Thomas Allen) ISBN 0-887-62281-X
Forthcoming: "These Shadows Remain: A Fable" (Guernica), 2008/2009