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Don Coles : Publications

Books & Chapbooks

Sometimes All Over (a collection of poems), Macmillan of Canada, 1975
Anniversaries (a collection of poems), Macmillan of Canada, 1979
The Prinzhorn Collection (a collection of poems), Macmillan of Canada, 1982
Landslides (new and selected poems, 1975-1985), McClelland & Stewart, 1986
K. in Love (a series of linked poems), Signal Editions (Véhicule Press Montreal), 1987
Little Bird (Last letter to my father; a poem), Signal Editions (Véhicule Press), 1991
Forests Of the Medieval World (a collection of poems), The Porcupine's Quill, Inc., 1993
Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry, 1993
Someone Has Stayed In Stockholm (new and selected poems), Arc Publications, UK, 1994
For the Living and the Dead, a translation by Don Coles from the Swedish, För Levande och Döda by Tomas Tranströmer, Buschekbooks, Ottawa, 1996
Kurgan, Porcupine's Quill, Erin, Ontario, Canada, 2000
Winner of the 14th annual Trillium Prize / Prix Trillium awarded for the best book published (in any genre) in the province of Ontario in the year 2000
Doctor Bloom's story : a novel. Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, 2004. 1st ed.
How we all swiftly : the first six books. Montreal : Signal Editions, 2005
A dropped glove in Regent Street : an autobiography by other means. Don Coles; foreword by Alberto Manguel. Montreal : Signal Editions, 2007.
The essential Don Coles, selected by Robyn Sarah. Erin, ON : Porcupine's Quill, 2009

Anthologies

The Poets of Canada, ed. J.R. Colombo, Hurtig Publishers, 1978 ISBN 0-88830-150-1: "Guide Book", p 185
To Say The Least, ed. P.K. Page, Press Porcepic Ltd., 1979 ISBN 0-88878-174-1: "Running Child", p 83
The New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English, ed. M. Atwood, Oxford University Press, 1982 ISBN 0-19-540396-7: 2 poems, pp 276-277
Here is A Poem, ed. F. McNeil, The League of Canadian Poets, 1983 "Guide Book", p 45
The Third Taboo, ed. H. Cadsby and M. Jacobs, Wolsak and Wynn, 1983 ISBN 0-919897-00-2: Foreword by DC; "On Envying Two Dead ... ", p 21
The Penguin Book of Canadian Verse, ed. R. Gustafson, Penguin Books, Canada, 1984 ISBN 0-14-042329-X: 2 poems, pp. 262-263
We Stand on Guard, comp. J.R. Colombo and M. Richardson, Doubleday, 1985 ISBN 0-385-25002-9: "On A Bust ... ", p 83
The New Canadian Poets 1970-85, ed. D. Lee, McClelland and Stewart, 1985 ISBN 0-7710-5216-2: 7 poems, pp 40-48
Relations, ed. K. Sherman, Mosaic Press, 1986 ISBN 0-88962-338-4: "William, et cetera", p 75
Poetry Australia, ed. G. Perry and C. Powell, South Head Press, 1986 "Always", p 22
Whole Notes, ed. N. Peters, 1987 "Ground Hog ... ", p 1
1987 Anthology Arvon International Poetry Competition, sel. T. Hughes, S. Heaney, Arvon Foundation, 1989 "Driving in the car with her", p 34
The Second Macmillan Anthology, ed. J. Metcalf, K. Thompson, Macmillan, 1989 10 Munch poems, pp 31-44
The Third Macmillan Anthology, ed. J. Metcalf, K. Thompson, Macmillan, 1990 6 poems, pp 99-112
Hueso Húmero, 27, 1990 "Selvas del Mundo Medieval" (Translation into Spanish by Luis Loayza of Forests of the Medieval World), pp 112-114
The North, ed. P. Sansom and J. Fisher, U.K.: The Poetry Business, 1992 "Someone has stayed ... ", p 21
The Signal Anthology, ed. M. Harris, Véhicule Press, 1993 Selections from "K in Love", pp 60-68
In Other Words, Literary Press Group, 1993 Selections from "Forests of the Medieval World", pp 64-67
Poetry Alive, ed. L. Liffiton and J. McAllister, Copp Clark Pitman Ltd. (Longman), 1993 "Photograph", p 195
Reconcilable Differences, ed. C. Levenson, Bayeux, 1994 8 poems, pp 35-45
Witness to Wilderness, ed. H. Breen-Needham, et al., Arsenal Pulp Press, 1994 ISBN 1-55152-009-5 "Forests ..." p 75

Broadsides

"On a bust of an army corporal killed on his twenty-first birthday driving a munitions wagon in the Boer War," Don Coles. Toronto : Dreadnaught Press, 1982] broadside
"My son at the seashore, age two," Don Coles. Toronto : Toronto Transit Commission [and] Urban Outdoor Trans Ad, [1998] broadside