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===Anthologies===
===Anthologies===
*Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets,
* ''Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets'',


==Reviews==
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*[http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/m_reid.htm "Monty Reid", ''100 Canadian poets'', University of Calgary]
*[http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/m_reid.htm "Monty Reid", ''100 Canadian poets'', University of Calgary]
*[http://planetearthpoetryatblackstilt.blogspot.com/2009/02/monty-reid.html "Monty Reid", ''Planet Earth Poetry At Black Stilt - The Reading Series'', February 27, 2009]
*[http://planetearthpoetryatblackstilt.blogspot.com/2009/02/monty-reid.html "Monty Reid", ''Planet Earth Poetry At Black Stilt - The Reading Series'', February 27, 2009]

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Revision as of 21:17, 6 September 2009

Monty Reid (born 1952 Spalding, Saskatchewan) is an Canadian poet.

Life

He graduated from the University of Alberta, with an M.A. He lived in Drumheller, Alberta and worked at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, and works at the Canadian Museum of Nature, since 1999.[1]

Awards

Works

  • The Life of Riley. Saskatoon Saskatchewan: Thistledown Press. 1981. ISBN 9780920066409.
  • These Lawns (Red Deer AB: Red Deer College Press, 1990)
  • The Alternate Guide (Red Deer College Press, 1995)
  • Dog Sleeps. Edmonton, Alberta: NeWest Press. 1993. ISBN 9780920897355.
  • Flat Side. Red Deer College Press. 1998. ISBN 9780889951884.
  • Crawlspace. Toronto Ontario: House of Anansi. 1993. ISBN 9780887845390.
  • Disappointment Island. Chaudiere Books. 2006. ISBN 9780978160111.

Chapbooks

  • cuba A book (Ottawa ON: above/ground press, 2005)
  • Sweetheart of Mine (Toronto ON: BookThug, 2006).

Anthologies

  • Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets,

Reviews

Twelve powerful meditations in Monty Reid's Flat Side explore the subtle connections between life and words, matter and consciousness, ourselves and the earth and sky. The first poem, "Burning the Back Issues," features the poet experiencing a sense of release as he casts into the fireplace back issues of American Poetry Review to warm his house on New Year's day. [2]

The thing that impressed me the most about Monty Reid's work is the sense of absolute distance that he evokes. With a title like Disappointment Island, this seems laughably obvious, but delving into the opening pages of his first section "Songs for the Mammoth Steppe," a whiff of something truly Romantic comes out at you.[3]

References

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