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.

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.

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.