Roy Miki

Roy Akira Miki (10 October 1942 – 5 October 2024) was a Canadian poet, scholar, editor, and activist most known for his social and literary work.

Life and career Born in Ste. Agathe, Manitoba, to second generation Japanese-Canadian parents, Miki grew up on a sugar beet farm before moving to Winnipeg. His family was forcibly relocated West to Manitoba where he was born in 1942 on said sugar beet farm, and interned during the Second World War. Miki taught contemporary literature at Simon Fraser University before retiring and held the title of professor emeritus. The same year, he also received the Thakore Visiting Scholar award and the Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy. In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Works Poetry 1991: Saving Face: Poems Selected, 1976–1988, Winnipeg: Turnstone Press 1995: Random Access File, Markham, ON: Red Deer Press 2001: Surrender, Toronto: The Mercury Press, winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for poetry 2006: There, Vancouver: New Star Books 2011: Mannequin Rising, Vancouver: New Star Books 2018: Flow: Poems Collected and New (edited by Michael Barnholden), Vancouver: Talonbooks

Critical studies 1983: The Prepoetics of William Carlos Williams, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press 1988: Tracing the Paths: Reading ≠ Writing The Martyrology, Vancouver: Talonbooks 1989: A Record of Writing: An Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering, Vancouver: Talonbooks 2004: Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice, Vancouver: Raincoast Books

Editor 1985: This Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese-Canadians, 1941–1948 by Muriel Kitagawa, Vancouver: Talonbooks 1997: Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy Kiyooka, Vancouver: Talonbooks

Other 1998: Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing (Essays), Toronto: The Mercury Press