George Amabile (born 29 May 1936) is a Canadian poet who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His poetry, fiction and non-fiction have been published in Canada, the USA, Europe, South America, Australia and New Zealand in over a hundred anthologies, magazines, journals and periodicals.

He has published seven books. The Presence of Fire^[1] won the Canadian Authors' Association Silver Medal for Poetry; his long poem, Dur, placed third in the CBC Literary Competition for 1991; Popular Crime won first prize in the Sidney Booktown International Poetry Contest in February, 2000; and he is the subject of a special issue of Prairie Fire.^[2] From October 2000 to April 2001 he was Writer in Residence at the Winnipeg Public library.^[3]

Bibliography

• 1972:Blood Ties
• 1976:Open Country
• 1977:Flower and Song (in Xochitl, in Cuicatl) ISBN 0-919594-63-8
• 1981:Ideas of Shelter ISBN 0-88801-054-0
• 1982:The Presence of Fire ISBN 0-7710-0735-3
• 1995:Rumours of Paradise/Rumours of War ISBN 0-7710-0736-1
• 1996:Five-o'clock Shadows ISBN 0-921688-13-X
• 2001:Tasting the Dark ISBN 1-896239-77-3

See also

• Canadian literature
• Canadian poetry
• List of Canadian poets
• List of Canadian writers

References

External links

• Archives of George Amabile (George Amabile fonds, R11693) are held at Library and Archives Canada