Jordan Abel

Jordan Abel
Born British Columbia, Canada
Occupation poet
Nationality Canadian
Period 2010s-present
Website
www.jordanabel.ca

Jordan Abel is a Nisga'a poet who lives and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.[1]

Life and work

Abel, a Nisga'a poet, was born in British Columbia. He is currently a doctoral student at Simon Fraser University in the Department of English. Abel's work addresses settler-colonialism directly, often through conceptual poetic approaches to overtly colonial texts (for example, Abel's books cut up, sample, and interrupt the Project Gutenberg archive of Western novels and Marius Barbeau's Totem Poles).

His first book of poetry, The Place of Scraps (Talonbooks), used as source text the work of 20th century ethnographer Marius Barbeau.[2] It won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award in 2014.[3][4] His second book, Un/inhabited, was named one of the best 75 books of 2015 by the CBC.[5][6]

Abel's third and most recent book of poetry, Injun, won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017.[7] The poems were based on 91 Western novels written during the past three centuries.[8]

Poetry

References

  1. ↑ "Vancouver poet Jordan Abel wins $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize". Toronto Star, June 9, 2017.
  2. ↑ "The Place of Scraps". CBC Books. April 1, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
  3. ↑ "Jordan Abel's The Place of Scraps". Jacket2. August 8, 2014. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
  4. ↑ "Arthur Erickson biography claims pair of B.C. Book Prizes". The Globe and Mail. May 5, 2014. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
  5. ↑ "CBCbooks.ca Best of Books of the Year - 2015" (PDF). Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  6. ↑ "Jordan Abel". CBC Books. June 24, 2015. Retrieved May 31, 2017.
  7. ↑ "Jordan Abel wins $65K Griffin Poetry Prize for Injun". CBC Books. June 8, 2017. Retrieved June 8, 2017.
  8. ↑ "Vancouver poet Jordan Abel wins $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize". Toronto Star, Lauren La RoseThe Canadian Press, June 9, 2017


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