Robert Bringhurst (born October 16, 1946) is a poet and author who has written about native issues and typography.

Born in Los Angeles, California, he was raised in Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Alberta, and British Columbia. Bringhurst studied architecture, linguistics, and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Utah. He holds a BA in comparative literature from Indiana University and a MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia.

He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Bibliography

Poetry

• The Shipwright's Log – 1972
• Cadastre – 1973
• Eight Objects – 1975
• Bergschrund – 1975
• Tzuhalem's Mountain – 1982
• The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972–82 – 1982 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• Tending the Fire – 1985
• The Blue Roofs of Japan – 1986
• Pieces of Map, Pieces of Music – 1986
• Conversations with a Toad – 1987
• The Calling: Selected Poems 1970–1995 – 1995
• Elements (with drawings by Ulf Nilsen) – 1995
• Nine Visits to the Mythworld – (translating Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas) 2000 (shortlisted for the 2001 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)
• The Book of Silences – 2001
• Ursa Major – 2003 (shortlisted for the 2004 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize)
• New World Suite Number Three: A poem in four movements for three voices – 2006

Prose

• Visions: Contemporary Art in Canada (with Geoffrey James, Russel Keziere & Doris Shadbolt) – 1983
• Ocean/Paper/Stone – 1984
• The Raven Steals the Light (with Bill Reid) – 1984
• Shovels, Shoes and the Slow Rotation of Letters – 1986
• The Black Canoe (with photographs by Ulli Steltzer) – 1991
• Boats Is Saintlier than Captains: Thirteen Ways of Looking at Morality, Language, and Design – 1997
• Native American Oral Literatures and the Unity of the Humanities – 1998
• A Short History of the Printed Word (with Warren Chappell) – 1999
• A Story As Sharp As a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World – 1999 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
• The Elements of Typographic Style – 1992, revised 1996, revised 2004
• The Solid Form Of Language: An Essay On Writing And Meaning – 2004

Translation

• Ghandl of the Qayahl Llaanas, Nine Visits to the Mythworld – 2000 (shortlisted for the 2001 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)
• Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay, Being in Being – 2001
• Parmenides, The Fragments – 2003

External links

• Griffin Poetry Prize biography
• Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including audio clip

1946 births | Living people | Canadian poets