Tom Marshall

Thomas Archibald Marshall (April 9, 1938 – April 28, 1993) was a Canadian poet, critic and novelist.

Born in Niagara Falls, Ontario, He was educated at Queen's University in Kingston, where he received his MA in 1965, writing his thesis on poet A. M. Klein. Marshall taught at the institution from 1964 until his death. The novel was posthumously published in 1995, and was reissued in 2014 as part of a series of historical novels set in Kingston. The Essential Tom Marshall, an anthology of his poetry compiled by David Helwig and Michael Ondaatje, was published in 2012.

Publications

Poetry

The Beast With Three Backs, (with Tom Eadie and Colin Norman.) Quarry Press, Kingston, n.d.. (1965) The Silences of Fire. Macmillan, Toronto, 1969. Magic Water. Quarry Press, Kingston, 1971. The Earth Book. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1974. The White City. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1976. The Elements. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1980. Playing with Fire. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1984. Dance of the Particles. Kingston, Quarry Press, 1984. Ghost Safari. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1991. Some Impossible Heaven of the Senses. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1994. The Essential Tom Marshall, 2012

Criticism

The Psychic Mariner: A Reading of the Poems of D.H. Lawrence. London and New York: Heineman and Viking Press, 1970. A. M. Klein. Edited and with an introduction by Tom Marshall. Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1970. Harsh and Lovely Land:The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian Tradition. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1979. Multiple Exposures, Promised Lands:Essays on Canadian Poetry and Fiction. Kingston, Quarry Press, 1992.

Fiction Rosemary Goal. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1978. (Harper Collins, paper.) Glass Houses. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1985. Adele at the End of the Day. Toronto, Macmillan, 1987. (Vintage Books, 1990.) Voices on the Brink. Toronto, Macmillan, 1988. (Faber and Faber,paper.) Changelings. Toronto, Macmillan, 1991. (McClelland and Stewart, paper.) Goddess Disclosing. Kingston, Quarry Press, 1992 The Adventures of John Montgomery. Kingston, Quarry Press, 1995.