Blaine Marchand

Blaine Marchand (born 1949 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian writer.^[1] Marchand has published poetry, non-fiction and a novel.

A longtime program manager with the Canadian International Development Agency, some of his writing has been inspired by his international travels with the organization.^[2] In 2012 he was guest editor of an issue of the Canadian poetry magazine Vallum dedicated to poets from Pakistan.^[2]

From 1992 to 1994 he was president of the League of Canadian Poets.^[1] He was also a co-founder of the Ottawa Independent Writers, the Ottawa Valley Book Festival and the Canadian Review, and a regular columnist for Ottawa's LGBT newspaper Capital Xtra!.

Openly gay,^[1] he lives in Ottawa.^[1]

Awards

• 1971 - Georgia May Cook Sonnet Award
• 1987 - Anthos Poetry Prize
• 1990 - The League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Contest, second prize
• 1992 - Archibald Lampman Award

Publications

Poetry

• After the Fact. Borealis Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-88887-051-3.
• Open Fires. Anthos Books. 1987. ISBN 978-0-920798-07-2.
• A Garden Enclosed. Cormorant Books. 1991. ISBN 978-0-920953-52-5.
• Bodily Presence. Quarry Press. 1994. ISBN 978-1-55082-1413.
• Aperture. BuschekBooks. 2008. ISBN 978-1-894543-46-0.
• The Craving of Knives. BuschekBooks. 2009. ISBN 978-1-894543-58-3.

Novels

• African Journey. Media-Sphere, Youth Editions. 1990. ISBN 978-0-662-18070-8.

Non Fiction

• Deborah Fletcher; Blaine Marchand; Louis Valenzuela (1981). Ottawa A to Z. Deneau Publishers. ISBN 978-0-88879-058-3.

Anthologies

• Garden Varieties. Cormorant Books. 1988. ISBN 0-920953-01-8.
• Capital Poets: An Ottawa Anthology. (Ouroboros, 1989).
• More Garden Varieties Two. Mercury Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-920544-76-1.

References

1. "An interview with poet Blaine Marchand". Xtra!, June 4, 2013.
2. "Reading Pakistan". Vallum 9:1, Winter 2012.

External links

• Blaine Marchand at the League of Canadian Poets