Seymour Mayne

Seymour Mayne (born 18 May 1944 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian poet and literary translator. He has published over 50 works of poetry and literary criticism, and has edited several anthologies of Canadian and Jewish literature.

He was a co-founder of Very Stone House, a small press dedicated to Canadian poetry, in 1965 with fellow poets Patrick Lane and bill bissett.

He also published a critical analysis of poet Irving Layton's work in 1978.

Mayne currently teaches Canadian literature at the University of Ottawa.

Works

• That Monocycle the Moon (1964)
• Tiptoeing on the Mount (1965)
• From the Portals of Mouseholes (1966)
• Ticklish Ticlorice (1969)
• Anewd (1969)
• Mutetations (1969)
• manimals (1969)
• The gigole teaspoon (1969)
• Mouth (1970)
• For Stems of Light (1971)
• Face (1971)
• Cutting the Keys (1974)
• Name (1975)
• Begging (1977)
• Diasporas (1977)
• Irving Layton: The Poet and His Critics (1978)
• Racoon (sic) (1979)
• The Impossible Promised Land: Poems New and Selected (1981)
• Essential Words: An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Poetry (1985)
• Children of Abel (1986)
• Killing Time (1992)
• The Song of Moses (1995)
• Jerusalem: An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Poetry, ed. with B. Glen Rotchin (1996)
• Carbon Filter: Poems in Dedication (1999)
• A Rich Garland: Poems for A. M. Klein, ed. with B. Glen Rotchin (1999)
• Light Industry (2000)
• Hail (2002)
• Ricochet (2004)
• September Rain (2005)
• I Am Still the Boy
• A Dream of Birds, written with B. Glen Rotchin (2007)
• Ricochet, bilingual English-French collection of word sonnets, translated by Sabine Huynh (2011)
• The Old Blue Couch & Other Stories (2012)

External links

• Seymour Mayne entry in International Who's Who 2004
• Seymour Mayne entry in International Who's Who in Poetry 2005
• Seymour Mayne entry in the Dictionary of Literary Biography