Brian Brett

Works by Brian Brett:

• Trauma Farm: Rebel History of Rural Life
• Tuco and the Scattershot World: A Life with Birds
• Coyote: A Mystery
• To Your Scattered Bodies Go
• Uproar's Your Only Music
• Tanganyika
• The Wind River Variations
• The Fungus Garden
• Poems New & Selected
• Smoke Without Exit
• Landlocked
• Fossil Ground At Phantom Creek
• Evolution in Every Direction
• Allegories of Love and Disaster
• The Colour of Bones in a Stream

A Salt Spring Island poet, journalist, editor and novelist. Born in Vancouver, he studied literature at Simon Fraser University before becoming a journalist and critic for numerous local and national publications.

Brian has been writing and publishing since the late 1960s and has worked extensively as an editor. His three-volume memoir is comprised of Uproar’s Your Only Music (2004); Trauma Farm (2009, winner of Writers’ Trust Canadian Non-Fiction Prize); and Tuco (2015). In 2016, the Writers’ Trust of Canada awarded Brian the Matt Cohen Lifetime Award to honour his body of work. Presented at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, Sechelt in 2006 and 2010.