Clint Burnham
Clint Burnham | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1962 (age 61–62) Comox, British Columbia |
| Occupation | Writer and academic |
| Nationality | Canadian |
Clint Burnham (born 1962 in Comox, British Columbia) is a Canadian writer and academic.[1]
He published the poetry collections Be Labour Reading (1997)[2] and Buddyland (2000), and the short story collection Airborne Photo (1999),[3] before publishing his debut novel Smoke Show in 2005.[4] The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2006.[5]
He was a ReLit Award nominee in the poetry category in 2018 for Pound @ Guantanamo (2017),[6] and in the short fiction category in 2022 for White Lie (2021).[7]
He has also published the poetry collections Rental Van (2007) and The Benjamin Sonnets (2009), and numerous academic non-fiction works on literature, art and architecture. He is a professor of English at Simon Fraser University.
His poems "Rent-a-Marxist" and "An Evening at Home" were anthologized in Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets (2007).
Publications
[edit]As author
[edit]- Buddyland (1994)
- The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory (1995)
- Be Labour Reading (1997)
- Airborne Photo (1999)
- Steven McCaffery (2003)
- Smoke Show (2006)
- Rental Van (2007)
- The Benjamin Sonnets (2009)
- The Only Poetry That Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing (2012)
- Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street (2016)
- Pound @ Guantánamo (2016)
- Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?: Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture (2018)
- White Lie (2021)
As editor
[edit]- From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom, co-edited with Paul Budra (2012)
- Lacan and the Environment, co-edited with Paul Kingsbury (2021)
References
[edit]- ^ Riley, Ali (2005-12-17). "Novel straddles line between poetry, prose". Calgary Herald.
- ^ Fitzgerald, Judith (1998-03-07). "Poetry good, bad and ugly". The Globe and Mail.
- ^ Bacchus, Lee (1999-08-08). "Angst, anger and anxiety". The Province.
- ^ Koepke, Melora (2006-03-25). "Readers connect the dots: Author Clint Burnham deliberately leaves things a little vague". Vancouver Sun.
- ^ Hughes, Fiona (2006-03-17). "B.C. Book finalists include Coupland and Vaillant". Vancouver Courier.
- ^ "Zoe Whittall, Jordan Abel among writers shortlisted for ReLit Awards". CBC Books. 2018-04-09. Archived from the original on 2022-05-23. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- ^ "Short fiction from Norma Dunning, David Huebert, Alix Ohlin among works shortlisted for 2022 ReLit Awards". CBC Books. 2022-05-09. Archived from the original on 2022-11-17. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
- 1962 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- 20th-century Canadian poets
- 20th-century Canadian short story writers
- 20th-century Canadian male writers
- 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- 21st-century Canadian novelists
- 21st-century Canadian poets
- 21st-century Canadian short story writers
- 21st-century Canadian male writers
- Canadian male novelists
- Canadian male poets
- Canadian male short story writers
- Canadian male non-fiction writers
- People from Comox, British Columbia
- Academic staff of Simon Fraser University
- Writers from Vancouver
- Canadian LGBTQ poets
- Canadian LGBTQ novelists
- Canadian gay writers
- Gay poets
- Gay novelists
- 21st-century Canadian LGBTQ people
- 20th-century Canadian LGBTQ people