Peter van Toorn

Peter van Toorn (born 1944) is a Canadian poet,[1] whose 1984 collection Mountain Tea was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 1984 Governor General's Awards.[2]

Born in the Netherlands, Van Toorn moved to Canada with his family as a child. He attended McGill University, and taught for almost 30 years at John Abbott College. He published the collections Leeway Grass (1970) and In Guildenstern County (1973) and edited the anthologies Cross/cut: Contemporary English Quebec Poetry (1982) and The Insecurity of Art: Essays on Poetics (1982), prior to the publication of Mountain Tea.[3] He published no new work following Mountain Tea, although Mountain Tea itself was reissued in 2003 by Véhicule Press.[3]

Works
  • Leeway Grass. Montreal: Delta Canada, 1970.
  • Love Song. New York: Doctor Generosity Press, 1970.
  • Four Montreal Poets (by Peter Van Toorn, Marc Plourde, Arty Gold, & Richard Sommer; edited by David Solway). Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1973.
  • In Guilderstern County. Lasalle, QC: Delta Canada, 1973.
  • Mountain Stick. Montreal: Versus, 1976.
  • Mountain Tea, and other poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1984. ISBN 0-7710-8714-4
    • Mountain Tea. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2003.
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References
  1. "Peter van Toorn riggin dat slapstuff". Books in Canada, April 2002.
  2. "Recollections". Canadian Literature, Summer 2006, Issue 189. pp. 139-142.
  3. Peter van Toorn: Six Poems. Jacket2, Issue 34, October 2007.


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