Marius Kociejowski

Marius Kociejowski (born 1949) is a Canadian-born poet, essayist and travel writer.

Kociejowski was born in 1949 in Bishop's Mills, Ontario, to a Polish father and an English mother. In 1973, he left Canada and later settled in London.[1] His first publication, Coast, won the Cheltenham Prize for Literature in 1991.[2] He works as an antiquarian bookseller specializing in poetry.[3] His interest in Syria has led him to research and write two books about the country,[4] and edit a Syrian anthology of travel writing. His book God's Zoo (2014) consists of a series of encounters with creative artists living in London who have become exiles from their cultural and geographical roots.[5]

Works

Poetry

  • Coast (Greville Press, 1991)
  • Doctor Honoris Causa (Anvil Press, 1993)
  • Music's Bride (Anvil Press, 1999). A Canadian edition of his poems, which collected the above
  • So Dance the Lords of Language (Porcupine's Quill in 2003) - a Canadian edition containing the above collections in a single volume.

Prose

  • The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool: A Syrian Journey (Sutton, 2004; new edition by Eland in 2016)
  • Syria through Writers' Eyes (Eland, 2006) - an anthology edited by Kociejowski
  • The Pigeon Wars of Damascus (Biblioasis, 2010) - a sequel to The Street Philosopher
  • The Pebble Chance: Feuilletons and Other Prose (2014)
  • God’s Zoo: Artists, Exiles, Londoners (2014)
  • Zoroaster's Children and Other Travels (2016)

References

  1. ↑ Jones, Evan (February 2012). "in conversation with Marius Kociejowski". PN Review. 38 (3). Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  2. ↑ "Interview with Marius Kociejowski, essayist and poet". Wasafiri. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  3. ↑ Dirda, Michael. "Michael Dirda reviews 'The Pebble Chance' by Marius Kociejowski". The Washington Post. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  4. ↑ Ormsby, Eric. "Five Questions with Marius Kociejowski". conversationalreading.com. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
  5. ↑ Caddy, David. "Marius Kociejowski's God's Zoo". tearsinthefence.com. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.