Robert Bringhurst

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Robert Bringhurst

WORKS

Poetry

''The Shipwright's Log'' – 1972

''Cadastre'' – 1973

''Eight Objects'' – 1975

''Bergschrund'' – 1975

''Tzuhalem's Mountain'' – 1982

''The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82'' – 1982 (nominated for a Governor General's Award )

''Tending the Fire'' – 1985

''The Blue Roofs of Japan'' – 1986

''Pieces of Map, Pieces of Music'' – 1986

''Conversations with a Toad'' – 1987

''The Calling: Selected Poems 1970–1995'' – 1995

''Elements'' (with drawings by Ulf Nilsen ) – 1995

''Nine Visits to the Mythworld'' – (translating Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas) 2000 (shortlisted for the 2001 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize )

''The Book of Silences'' – 2001

''Ursa Major'' – 2003

''New World Suite Number Three: A poem in four movements for three voices'' – (soon to be published) 2006

Prose

''Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada'' (with Geoffrey James , Russel Keziere & Doris Shadbolt ) – 1983

''Ocean/Paper/Stone'' – 1984

''The Raven Steals the Light'' (with Bill Reid ) – 1984

''Shovels, Shoes and the Slow Rotation of Letters'' – 1986

''The Black Canoe'' (with photographs by Ulli Steltzer ) – 1991

''Boats Is Saintlier than Captains: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Morality, Language, and Design'' – 1997

''Native American Oral Literatures and the Unity of the Humanities'' – 1998

''A Short History of the Printed Word'' (with Warren Chappell ) – 1999

''A Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World'' – 1999 (nominated for a Governor General's Award )

'' The Elements Of Typographic Style '' – 1992 , revised 1996 , revised 2004

''The Solid Form Of Language: An Essay On Writing And Meaning'' – 2004

Translation

Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas, ''Nine Visits to the Mythworld'' – 2000 (nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize )

Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay, ''Being in Being'' – 2001

Parmenides, ''The Fragments'' – 2003

EXTERNAL LINKS

Griffin Poetry Prize biography

Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including audio clip