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    In 1959, the family moved to Vancouver, B.C., where Wayman finished high school, and attended the University of B.C. He graduated in 1966 with a B.A. in Honors English. During his undergraduate years Wayman worked as a journalist on the Vancouver Sun, and on the UBC student newspaper The Ubyssey (of which he was editor-in-chief in 1965-66).
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    Thomas Ethan Wayman (born 13 August 1945) is a Canadian author.. Born in Hawkesbury, Ontario, Wayman has lived most of his life in British Columbia.He studied at the University of British Columbia (BA 1966), and the University of California, Irvine (MFA 1968), and has been employed at a number of blue-collar and white-collar jobs in Canada and the U.S., although mainly he taught at the ...
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    Tom Wayman · Author

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    ABOUT TOM WAYMAN Tom Wayman's long writing career includes more than twenty poetry collections, three collections of critical and cultural essays, three books of short fiction, and a novel. His honours include the 2022 George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award and being named a Vancouver BC literary landmark. Visit Tom's BIO for more.
  5. thecanadianencyclopedia.ca

    Tom Wayman has a unique voice in Canadian poetry as an ardent spokesman and advocate of the workplace. Wayman transfers his experience in construction, demolition and factory jobs into his writing. He consistently argues that daily work is one of the central concerns of life, and that it should therefore be - along with love, death and nature ...
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    Tom Wayman was born in 1945 in Hawkesbury, Ontario, half way between Montreal and Ottawa in the Ottawa River valley. Wayman's father was a pulp mill chemist who worked in the Hawkesbury mill. ... Literature and Social Change (2018). A monograph, Songs Without Price: The Music of Poetry in a Discordant World, was published in 2008 based on a ...
  7. poemhunter.com

    Besides editing a number of anthologies of work poems, and publishing critical essays on the various dimensions of work-based literature, he was a co-founder of the Vancouver Industrial Writers' Union (1979-1993), a work-writing circle, and has participated in a number of labor arts ventures. In 2015 Wayman was named by the Vancouver Public ...
  8. canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca

    Canadian Poets, 19th Century. Representative Poetry Online. Tom Wayman : Publications ... Introducing Tom Wayman: Selected Poems 1973-80 (Ontario Review Press, 1980), 134 pages; ... Songs Without Price: The Music of Poetry in a Discordant World (Institute for Coastal Research, 2008), 63 pages;
  9. encyclopedia.com

    Tom Wayman comments: What I want to do with my poems, and with the poems by others that I encourage and collect, is bring into Canadian literature a poetry of everyday life based on the central experience of that life for most people—daily work. By "work" I mean what men and women do for a living, whether paid or unpaid, blue- or white-collar.
  10. Wayman, Tom; Webb, Phyllis; Woodcock, George; Zwicky, Jan; Resources in This Category. ... Home > Arts > Literature > Poetry > Poets . Home > Arts > Literature > World Literature > Canadian > Poetry > Poets . Thanks to DMOZ, which built a great web directory for nearly two decades and freely shared it with the web. ...

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  1. Tom Wayman

    Thomas Ethan Wayman is a Canadian author. Born in Hawkesbury, Ontario, Wayman has lived most of his life in British Columbia. He studied at the University of British Columbia, and the University of California, Irvine, and has been employed at a number of blue-collar and white-collar jobs in Canada and the U.S., although mainly he taught at the postsecondary level. Much of his academic career was spent in the B.C. community college system. As well, he is a co-founder of two alternative B.C. post-secondary creative writing schools: the Vancouver centre of the Kootenay School of Writing and the writing department of Nelson, B.C.'s Kootenay School of the Arts. He holds Associate Professor Emeritus of English status from the University of Calgary, where he taught 2002–2010. In 2007 he was the Fulbright Visiting Chair in creative writing at Arizona State University, and has also taught at Colorado State University and Wayne State University. Wikipedia

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