Roy Miki

Roy Akira Miki, CM OBC FRSC (born October 10, 1942) is a Canadian poet and scholar.

Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to second generation Japanese-Canadian parents, he attended the University of Manitoba, the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University, where he is currently a professor emeritus. He lives in Vancouver. He is very active in the Japanese-Canadian community and has fought hard for redress from the federal government for the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War.

In 2006, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.^[1] In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2009, he was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia.

Works

Poetry

• 1991: Saving Face: Poems Selected, 1976-1988
• 1995: Random Access File, poems
• 2001: Surrender, winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for poetry
• 2006: There
• 2011: Mannequin Rising

Critical studies

• 1983: The Prepoetics of William Carlos Williams
• 1990: An annotated bibliography of George Bowering
• 1988: Tracing the Paths, a book on bpNichol
• 2004: Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice

Editor

• 1985: This Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese-Canadians, 1941-1948 by Muriel Kitagawa (1985)
• 1997: Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy Kiyooka (1997)

Other

• 1998: Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing, essays

References

1. Order of Canada citation

External links

• Roy Akira Miki at The Canadian Encyclopedia