John Pass

Works by John Pass:

• This Was the River
• The Hour's Acropolis
• Radical Innocence
• Crawlspace
• Self Storage
• Stumbling In The Bloom
• Twinned Towers
• nowrite.doc
• Water Stair
• Mud Bottom
• Rugosa

John Pass’s poems have been published in Canada, the US, the UK, Ireland and the Czech Republic. He is the author of twenty books and chapbooks, most notably the quartet AT LARGE, comprised of The Hour’s Acropolis (Harbour, 1991), Radical Innocence (Harbour, 1994), Water Stair (Oolichan Books, 2000)—shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award—and Stumbling in the Bloom(Oolichan Books, 2005)—winner of the Governor General’s Award. crawlspace, from Harbour in 2011, won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Forecast: Selected Early Poems (1970–1990), appeared in 2015. He lives with his wife, writer Theresa Kishkan, near Sakinaw Lake on BC’s Sunshine Coast.

He appeared at the Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts, Sechelt in 1989, 2002, and 2007.