About David Zieroth
Born 1946. David Zieroth is a Canadian poet.
David Zieroth (born November 7, 1946, in Neepawa, Manitoba) is a Canadian poet. He won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1999 for How I Joined Humanity at Last, and the Governor General's Award for English language poetry in 2009 for The Fly in Autumn.
Works 1973: Clearing: Poems from a Journey 1981: Mid-River 1985: When the Stones Fly Up 1991: The Weight of My Raggedy Skin 1998: How I Joined Humanity at Last 2000: The Tangled Bed 2000: Palominos and Other Poems 2001: Crows Do Not Have Retirement 2002: The Education of Mr Whippoorwill: A Country Boyhood 2006: The Village of Sliding Time 2008: Dust in the Brocade 2009: The Fly in Autumn 2009: Berlin Album 2010: Hay Day Canticle 2013: The November Optimist 2014: Albrecht Dürer and me 2015: Zoo and Crowbar 2018: the bridge from day to night 2022: watching for life 2023: the trick of staying and leaving 2024: first here and then far: selected poems 1971−2024
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