David McFadden

David William McFadden (October 11, 1940 – June 6, 2018) was a Canadian poet, fiction writer, and travel writer.

Biography McFadden was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and began writing poetry while still in high school, publishing in literary magazines, corresponding with Beat writer Jack Kerouac, and becoming a proofreader for the Hamilton Spectator newspaper. As he gained success as a poet he quit the newspaper devoting himself full-time to literature in 1976.

McFadden served on the editorial board of Coach House Press, and as a contributing editor for SwiftCurrent and Canadian Art Magazine. He was a monthly columnist for Quill and Quire and Hamilton This Month. He taught at David Thompson University Centre for three years and was a member of the production team of the literary journal Brick.

Works Poetry The Poem Poem – 1967 Letters from the Earth to the Earth – 1968 Poems Worth Knowing – 1971 Intense Pleasure – 1972 The Ova Yogas – 1972 The Poet's Progress – 1977 The Saladmaker – 1977 I Don't Know – 1978 A Knight in Dried Plums – 1978 On the Road Again – 1978 A New Romance – 1979 My Body Was Eaten By Dogs – 1981 Country of the Open Heart – 1982 Three Stories and Ten Poems – 1982 A Pair of Baby Lambs – 1983 The Art of Darkness – 1984 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) Gypsy Guitar – 1987 (nominated for a Governor General's Award) Anonymity Suite – 1992 There'll Be Another – 1995 Five Star Planet – 2002 Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden – 2007 (shortlisted for the 2008 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize) Be Calm, Honey – 2008 (shortlisted for the 2009 Governor General's Award in Poetry) Why Are You So Long & Sweet? Collected Long Poems of David W. McFadden – 2009 What's the Score? – 2012 (winner of the 2013 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)

Fiction The Great Canadian Sonnet – 1974 Animal Spirits – 1983 Canadian Sunset – 1986

Travel A Trip Around Lake Huron – 1980 A Trip Around Lake Erie – 1980 A Trip Around Lake Ontario – 1988 An Innocent in Ireland – 1995 Great Lakes Suite – 1997 An Innocent in Scotland – 1999 An Innocent in Newfoundland – 2003 An Innocent in Cuba – 2003