Shane Rhodes

Shane Rhodes is a Canadian poet.

Life

He graduated from the University of New Brunswick, and currently lives in Ottawa.

He is a two-time winner of the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry. In 2008, when his work The Bindery won the award, Rhodes turned over half of the $1,500 prize money to the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, a First Nations health centre. At the time the award was named the Lampman-Scott Award, honouring both Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott, and Rhodes felt that Scott's legacy as a civil servant who was responsible for some of Canada's more controversial policy legacy on First Nations issues overshadowed his work as a pioneer of Canadian poetry.[1]

Rhodes identifies as bisexual.[2] His work was included in John Barton and Billeh Nickerson's 2007 anthology Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets.[2]

Awards

• Alberta Book Award for poetry, for The Wireless Room
• 2003 Archibald Lampman Award, for Holding Pattern
• 2008 Lampman-Scott Award, for The Bindery
• The 2009 PK Page Founders Award for Poetry from the Malahat Review
• Winner of the 34th National Magazine Awards for poetry (2011)

Works

• The Wireless Room. NeWest Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1-896300-15-3.
• Holding Pattern. NeWest Press. 2002. ISBN 978-1-896300-60-3.
• Tengo Sed. Greenboathouse Books. 2004. ISBN 978-1-894744-17-1. Chapbook
• The blues. Above/Ground Press. 2004. broadside
• The Bindery. NeWest Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-897126-14-1.
• Err. Nightwood Editions. 2011. ISBN 978-0-88971-256-0.
• X. Nightwood Editions. 2013. ISBN 978-0-88971-288-1.
• Dead White Men. Coach House Books. 2017. ISBN 978-1-55245-345-2.

Anthologies

• New Canadian Poetry. Even Jones, ed. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2000.
• Rob McLennan, ed. (2002). Side/lines: a new Canadian poetics. Insomniac Press. ISBN 978-1-894663-34-2.
• Lorna Crozier; Patrick Lane, eds. (2004). Breathing fire 2: Canada's new poets. Nightwood Editions. ISBN 978-0-88971-195-2.
• John Barton, Billeh Nickerson, ed. (June 1, 2007). Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets. Arsenal Pulp Press. ISBN 978-1-55152-217-3.
• The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008. Stephanie Bolster, ed. Tightrope Books, 2008.
• Best Gay Poetry 2008. Lawrence Schimel, ed. A Midsummer Night’s Press: New York, 2008.
• Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. Melissa Tuckey, ed. University of Georgia Press, 2018.

References

1. "Poet donates prize as reminder of award namesake's legacy". CBC News, October 21, 2008.
2. "Seminal achievement includes local writers". Xtra Ottawa, April 5, 2007.