Todd Swift is one of the most exciting and eclectic young writers to emerge in Canada. Over the last years he has continuously explored new genres and themes, writing in a variety of styles, including work for television, film, radio, theatre, CD, spoken word and the printed page. He has also become recognized as one of North America's leading poetry activists and is involved internationally in the promotion of performance poets, through his various cabaret events and other related projects. As performer, writer, impresario and editor, (of the significant anthologies Map-Makers' colors: New Poets of Northern Ireland and Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poets), he has defined a new kind of cosmopolitan panache for the idea of the poet as key figure at the start of the new millennium.

Budavox: Poems (1990 - 1999) (New Writers)

Literature & Fiction

SWIFT, TODD

Poetry

Dc Books

Todd Swift is one of the most exciting and eclectic young writers to emerge in Canada. Over the last years he has continuously explored new genres and themes, writing in a variety of styles, including work for television, film, radio, theatre, CD, spoken word and the printed page. He has also become recognized as one of North America's leading poetry activists and is involved internationally in the promotion of performance poets, through his various cabaret events and other related projects. As performer, writer, impresario and editor, (of the significant anthologies Map-Makers' Colours: New Poets of Northern Ireland and Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poets), he has defined a new kind of cosmopolitan panache for the idea of the poet as key figure at the start of the new millennium.

Budavox

England is Mine, Todd Swift's seventh collection of poems, takes on the foreign coolness, tone and lingo of London in the present, while the poet's Montreal past arrives in waves of defiance, solace and reverie. In poems that demonstrate Swift's abilities as a poet to out-move The Movement (out bicycle-clip Larkin), on the one hand, and revive the British Revival, on the other, this collection pushes old, droll Mr. Poetic Persona to the brink of discovering an urgent, idealistic youthful self within. Public, intimate, clever, and heartbreakingly sad, the poems in England is Mine reveal a poet at the height of his engagement with the lyric idiom.

England is Mine (Punchy Poetry)

Swift is one of the leading Canadian poets and poetry activists of his generation. His critical study of Anglo-Quebec poetry, Language Acts, co-edited with Jason Camlot, was a finalist for the 2007 Gabrielle Roy Prize. He has had four previous collections of poems published in Montreal. He lives in London, England, with his wife, where he works as a lecturer in creative writing, editor, and writer. Seaway gathers together 80 poems and is the first full retrospective of a poetry career that spans over two decades.                            "". . . a compendium of eighty poems of superbly written free-form verse that is enthusiastically recommended for personal, academic, and community library poetry collections and reading lists."" -Midwest Book Review

Seaway: New and Selected Poems

Salmon Poetry

Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam. Edited by Todd Swift, Kim Lockwood

Cinnamon Press

Poetry. Religion &amp; Sprituality. Edited by Todd Swift, Fr. Oliver Brennan, Kelly Davio and Cate Myddleton-Evans. This major anthology, the first of its kind, gathers work from renowned contemporary poets from America, Britain, and the world. Representative of poets from a wide variety of faiths—as well as agnostics and atheists&amp;8212;and introduced by renowned religious scholar Professor Ewan Fernie, this volume includes work by Andrew Motion, Rowan Williams, Ian Duhig, Rae Armantrout, Fanny Howe, Charles Bernstein, and over 200 others.

The Poet's Quest for God: 21st Century Poems of Faith, Doubt and Wonder

Eyewear Publishing

In this work, Todd Swift pursues his&nbsp;exploration of how art, fantasy, and desire can console, or inflame, the heart - and&nbsp;how, against the vastly more powerful claims of reality, the imagination can do&nbsp;no more than offer its impulsive, fragile and poignant gifts. Love and lust, fear and&nbsp;trust, hope and despair are tangled.

There's An Excess At The Heart Of Being That's Wild

Caillou, What's That Noise (Clubhouse USA)

Children's Books

Johnson, Marion

Bishopric, Thor

Editions Chouette Inc.

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