Michael crummey interview
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Michael Crummey
Canadian poet and writer
Michael Crummey (born November 18, 1965) is a Canadian poet and a writer of historical fiction. His writing often draws on the history and landscape of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Early life and education
Crummey was born in Buchans, Newfoundland; he grew up there and in Wabush, Labrador, where he moved with his family in the late 1970s.[1] He began to write poetry while studying at Memorial University in St. John's, where he won the university's Gregory J. Power Poetry Contest in 1986 and received a B.A. in English in 1987. He completed a M.A. at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1988, later leaving the Ph.D. program to pursue his writing career.[2]
Career
In 1994, he became the first winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for young unpublished writers. His first volume of poetry, Arguments with Gravity (1996), won the Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry. Hard Light (1998), his second collection, was nominated for the Milton Acorn People's Po
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Michael Crummey (1965-)
Michael Crummey was born in 1965 in Buchans, where he lived until the late 1970s, when he moved with his family to Wabush, Labrador, a mining town near the Labrador-Quebec border. Following high school, he attended Memorial University of Newfoundland, earning an Arts degree with a major in English. Crummey made his poetic debut at Memorial University in 1986 when he won the first place in the Gregory J. Power Poetry Competition, and he published his first poem in TickleAce, a literary journal devoted mainly to the writing of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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Crummey made his poetic debut at Memorial University in 1986 when he won the first place in the Gregory J. Power Poetry Competition.
Photo by Chris Miner. Reproduced by permission of Michael Crummey.
In 1987 Crummey moved to Kingston, Ontario, where he completed an M.A. at Queen's University. Later he dropped out of the Ph.D. program in order to devote more time to writing. For a six-month period in 1991, he taught ESL (English as a Second Language) in China. Then in 1996 he st
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Photo credit: Julie van der Meulen
Michael Crummey was born in Buchans, a mining town in the interior of Newfoundland, growing up there and in Wabush, Labrador, a mining town near the Quebec border. Second of four boys born to parents Arthur and Mazie. Attended Memorial University in St. John's, completing a BA in English in 1987. Moved to Kingston, ON to pursue graduate work at Queen's University, finally and mercifully dropping out of the Ph. D program in 1989 (Michael Crummey, BA, MA, P.).
With the exception of a brief stint teaching ESL in China for 6 months in 1991, he's lived in Kingston ever since, and in the course of that time has managed to pick up a ridiculous Ontario accent. He has worked at a variety of jobs including institutional counselor with the John Howard Society; chief cook and bottle washer for the International Day of Solidarity With the People of Guatemala; and, most recently, paid lackey of the Ontario Public Interest Research Group-Kingston.
Began making serious attempts to write poetry in first year university -- awful, awful stuff which he was g
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