David Solway
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David Solway (born 8 December 1941) is a Canadian poet, educational theorist, travel writer and literary critic of Jewish descent.
He is a member of the Jubilate Circle and formerly a teacher of English Literature at John Abbott College. He has spent most of his life in the Montreal area and now lives in Hudson,Quebec.
Solway is renowned[who?] for his work both as a poet and as a teacher, as well as for his polemical outspokenness, especially in defence of Zionism, George W. Bush and the so-called war on terror. For inspiration, he invented a Greek poet named Andreas Karavis, whose work he published in apparent translation. He has inspired other Canadian artists to rebel against the parochial.[who?]
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[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Poetry
- Modern Marriage (1987)
- Bedrock (1993)
- Chess Pieces (1999)
- Saracen Island: The Poetry of Andreas Karavis (as Andreas Karavis; 2000)
- The Lover's Progress: Poems after William Hogarth (2001)
- Franklin's Passage (2003)
- The Pallikari Of Nesmine Rifat (as Nesmine Rifat; 2005)
- Reaching for Clear: The Poetry of Rhys Savarin (2007) (winner of the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry)
[edit] Essays and criticism
- Education Lost (1989)
- Random Walks
- Lying about the Wolf: Essays in Culture & Education (1997)
- The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods: Liberal Studies in the Corporate Age (2000)
- An Andreas Karavis Companion (2000)
- Director's Cut (2003)
- The Big Lie: On Terror, Antisemitism, and Identity (2007)
[edit] References
- New, W. H., ed. The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. p. 1058.
- Carmine Starnino, ed. David Solway, Essays on His Works (2001)
