Canadian poet, scholar, editor, and activist
Roy Akira Miki ,
CM
OBC
FRSC (born 10 October 1942) is a Canadian poet, scholar, editor, and activist most known for his social and literary work.
Born in
Ste. Agathe, Manitoba to second generation
Japanese-Canadian parents, Miki grew up on a sugar beet farm before moving to
Winnipeg .
[1]
[2]
[3] His family was forcibly relocated West to Manitoba where he was born in 1942 on said sugar beet farm, and
interned during the Second World War .
[1] He earned his B.A. from the
University of Manitoba , M.A. from the
Simon Fraser University , and Ph.D. from the
University of British Columbia .
[1]
[4] Miki taught contemporary literature at Simon Fraser University before retiring and holds the title of professor emeritus.
[1] He lives in
Vancouver . In the 1980s, Miki was a "instrumental" in fighting for redress from the federal government for the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War.
[2]
[4]
In 2002, Miki's book of poetry, Surrender , won the
Governor General's Literary Award for poetry .
[4] His poetry focuses on questions about identity, citizenship, race, and place.
[4] He is the author of the critical study, Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing (1998), In Flux: Transnational Shifts in Asian Canadian Writing (2011), The Prepoetics of William Carlos Williams (1983), and an annotated bibliography of the poet and novelist George Bowering (1990).
[4]
In 2006, Miki was made a Member of the
Order of Canada and received the 20th annual
Gandhi Peace Award for the truth, justice, human rights, and non-violence exemplified in his redress work.
[2]
[5] The same year, he also received the Thakore Visiting Scholar award and the Sterling Prize in Support of Controversy.
[6] In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada .
[4] In 2009, he was made a Member of the
Order of British Columbia .
[4]
Works
Poetry
1991: Saving Face: Poems Selected, 1976–1988 , Winnipeg: Turnstone Press
1995: Random Access File , Markham, ON: Red Deer Press
2001: Surrender , Toronto: The Mercury Press, winner of the
2002 Governor General's Award for poetry
2006: There , Vancouver: New Star Books
2011: Mannequin Rising , Vancouver: New Star Books
2018: Flow: Poems Collected and New (edited by
Michael Barnholden ), Vancouver: Talonbooks
Critical studies
1983: The Prepoetics of William Carlos Williams , Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press
1988: Tracing the Paths: Reading ≠ Writing The Martyrology, Vancouver: Talonbooks
1989: A Record of Writing: An Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering , Vancouver: Talonbooks
2004: Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice , Vancouver: Raincoast Books
Editor
1985: This Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese-Canadians, 1941–1948 by
Muriel Kitagawa , Vancouver: Talonbooks
1997: Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy Kiyooka , Vancouver: Talonbooks
Other
1998: Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing (Essays) , Toronto: The Mercury Press
References
External links
1980s 1990s
Margaret Avison , No Time (1990)
Don McKay , Night Field (1991)
Lorna Crozier , Inventing the Hawk (1992)
Don Coles , Forests of the Medieval World (1993)
Robert Hilles , Cantos from a Small Room (1994)
Anne Szumigalski , Voice (1995)
E. D. Blodgett , Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996)
Dionne Brand , Land to Light On (1997)
Stephanie Bolster , White Stone: The Alice Poems (1998)
Jan Zwicky , Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (1999)
2000s
Don McKay , Another Gravity (2000)
George Elliott Clarke , Execution Poems (2001)
Roy Miki , Surrender (2002)
Tim Lilburn , Kill-site (2003)
Roo Borson , Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (2004)
Anne Compton , processional (2005)
John Pass , Stumbling in the Bloom (2006)
Don Domanski , All Our Wonder Unavenged (2007)
Jacob Scheier , More to Keep Us Warm (2008)
David Zieroth , The Fly in Autumn (2009)
2010s
Richard Greene , Boxing the Compass (2010)
Phil Hall , Killdeer (2011)
Julie Bruck , Monkey Ranch (2012)
Katherena Vermette , North End Love Songs (2013)
Arleen Paré , Lake of Two Mountains (2014)
Robyn Sarah , My Shoes Are Killing Me (2015)
Steven Heighton , The Waking Comes Late (2016)
Richard Harrison , On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood (2017)
Cecily Nicholson , Wayside Sang (2018)
Gwen Benaway , Holy Wild (2019)
2020s
International National Academics Other