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David Zieroth

Canadian poet

David Zieroth (born November 7, 1946, in Neepawa, Manitoba) is a Canadian poet. He won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1999 for How I Joined Humanity at Last, and the Governor General's Award for English language poetry in 2009 for The Fly in Autumn.

01Works

  • 1973: Clearing: Poems from a Journey
  • 1981: Mid-River
  • 1985: When the Stones Fly Up
  • 1991: The Weight of My Raggedy Skin
  • 1998: How I Joined Humanity at Last
  • 2000: The Tangled Bed
  • 2000: Palominos and Other Poems
  • 2001: Crows Do Not Have Retirement
  • 2002: The Education of Mr Whippoorwill: A Country Boyhood
  • 2006: The Village of Sliding Time
  • 2008: Dust in the Brocade
  • 2009: The Fly in Autumn
  • 2009: Berlin Album
  • 2010: Hay Day Canticle
  • 2013: The November Optimist
  • 2014: Albrecht Dürer and me
  • 2015: Zoo and Crowbar
  • 2018: the bridge from day to night
  • 2022: watching for life
  • 2023: the trick of staying and leaving
  • 2024: first here and then far: selected poems 1971−2024
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