David Helwig: Essays on His Works

by Ingrid Ruthig (Editor)

To date, Canadian poet, novelist, and essayist David Helwig has published close to fifty books and edited numerous others. He has also written for television and radio, worked at the CBC, taught at Queen's University, been Poet Laureate of Prince Edward Island, and was named to the Order of Canada. Yet, he remains little known. This volume is the first to gather new essays, an interview, and earlier material -- by George Fetherling, Douglas Glover, D.G. Jones, Simon Lloyd, Tom Marshall, rob mclennan, Shane Neilson, Ingrid Ruthig, Mark Sampson, and Lorraine M. York - in order to introduce and explore Helwig's body of work, while documenting the broad range of his literary talents and accomplishments.

133 pages, Paperback

Published September 1, 2018

About the author

Ingrid Ruthig is the author of This Being (Fitzhenry & Whiteside), winner of the League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. The recipient of a Hawthornden Fellowship and a Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize, she is also author of the artist's book Slipstream, the chapbook Synesthete II, and editor of several volumes including The Essential Elizabeth Brewster (Porcupine's Quill) and David Helwig: Essays on His Works (Guernica Editions). A new book of her poetry is forthcoming from Véhicule Press.