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Peter Taylor has published eight books and chapbooks and his poems have appeared in journals and anthologies in Australia, Canada,
the Caribbean, France, India, Ireland, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Romania, Singapore, Sweden, Thailand, the United Kingdom
and the United States. His latest collection, Cities Within Us (Guernica Editions, 2024) was shortlisted for the international Poetry Book Awards in Pontypridd, Wales, and his experimental verse play, Antietam (Winning Writers, 2010), won honourable mention in the international War Poetry Contest in Northampton, Massachusetts. He co-authored, with Stan Solomon, Patients First: The Story of Family Medicine in Canada (Key Porter Books, 2004), celebrating the 50th anniversary of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. His first collection, Trainer (Paget Press, 1980), a mosaic of poems capturing his father's experience as a pilot during the Second World War, with an introductory poem by Raymond Souster, was called "a work of scholarship and imagination" by John Robert Colombo (The Globe and Mail). He holds a master's degree in English Literature and has worked as a printer and bookbinder, medical publisher, institute director and non-profit executive. Born in Edmonton, he lives in Aurora, Ontario. |
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Awards: Honourable Mention, The Entitled Titles Competition, The Ontario Poetry Society (2025) Shortlisted, Cities Within Us, Poetry Book Awards, Pontypridd, Wales (2024) Honourable Mention, War Poetry Contest, Winning Writers, Northampton, MA (2010) Finalist, Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Award, Kitchener Public Library, Kitchener (1979) |
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Books: Cities Within Us, Guernica Editions, Gananoque, ON (2024) Hell-box, Frog Hollow Press, Victoria, BC (2020) Antietam: A Verse Play, Winning Writers, Northampton, MA (online 2010) Patients First: The Story of Family Medicine in Canada, with Stan Solomon, Key Porter Books, Toronto, ON (2004). Aphorisms, Adela Press, Guelph, ON (1982) Trainer, Paget Press, Sutton West, ON (1980) The Masons, Gryphon Press, Guelph, ON (1980) First Epistle to Dr. Torr, Gryphon Press, Guelph, ON (1976) |
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Selected Anthologies: The Entitled Titles Anthology, The Ontario Poetry Society (2025) Amsterdam Quarterly Yearbook, Amsterdam Quarterly Books, NL (2016) Storm Cycle 2015, Kind of a Hurricane Press: Mountain View, CA (2016) Form Quarterly: Sonnets, Local Gems Press, Middletown, DE (2015) Element(ary) My Dear, Kind of a Hurricane Press: Mountain View, CA (2015) Slim Volume: Wherever You Roam, Create Space, SC (2015) Stroll of Poets Anthology, Stroll of Poets Society, Edmonton, AB (2008) We Stand on Guard, Doubleday Canada, Toronto, ON (1985) The Best of Grain, Saskatchewan Writers Guild, Saskatoon, SK (1980) |
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Books In Print: Cities Within Us, Guernica Editions, Gananoque, ON (2024) https://guernicaeditions.com/products/cities-within-us Antietam A Verse Play, Winning Writers, Northampton, MA (online 2010) https://winningwriters.com/past-winning-entries/antietam |
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