David Solway

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David Solway (born 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 professor of English Literature at John Abbott College. He lives in Hudson, Quebec.

David Solway is renowned for his metier both as a poet and as a teacher, for his common sense, skepticism, flamboyancy and polemical outspokenness. For inspiration, he invented a Greek poet named Andreas Karavis, whose work he published in translation. He has inspired other Canadian artists to rebel against the parochial.

[edit] Bibliography

Poetry:

• Modern Marriage 1987
• Bedrock 1993
• Chess Pieces 1999
• The Lover's progress, Poems after William Hogarth, 2001
• Franklin's Passage 2003

Poetry Translation:

• Andreas Karavis: Saracen Island, The Poetry of Andreas Karavis, 2000
• Nesmine Rifat: Pallikari

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

[edit] References

• Carmine Starnino, ed.: David Solway, Essays on His Works, 2001

[edit] See also

• List of Canadian poets