Clint Burnham

Clint Burnham
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Comox, British Columbia
OccupationWriter and academic
NationalityCanadian

Clint Burnham (born 1962 in Comox, British Columbia) is a Canadian writer and academic.[1]

He published the poetry collections Be Labour Reading (1997)[2] and Buddyland (2000), and the short story collection Airborne Photo (1999),[3] before publishing his debut novel Smoke Show in 2005.[4] The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2006.[5]

He was a ReLit Award nominee in the poetry category in 2018 for Pound @ Guantanamo (2017),[6] and in the short fiction category in 2022 for White Lie (2021).[7]

He has also published the poetry collections Rental Van (2007) and The Benjamin Sonnets (2009), and numerous academic non-fiction works on literature, art and architecture. He is a professor of English at Simon Fraser University.

His poems "Rent-a-Marxist" and "An Evening at Home" were anthologized in Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets (2007).

Publications

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As author

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  • Buddyland (1994)
  • The Jamesonian Unconscious: The Aesthetics of Marxist Theory (1995)
  • Be Labour Reading (1997)
  • Airborne Photo (1999)
  • Steven McCaffery (2003)
  • Smoke Show (2006)
  • Rental Van (2007)
  • The Benjamin Sonnets (2009)
  • The Only Poetry That Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing (2012)
  • Fredric Jameson and The Wolf of Wall Street (2016)
  • Pound @ Guantánamo (2016)
  • Does the Internet Have an Unconscious?: Slavoj Žižek and Digital Culture (2018)
  • White Lie (2021)

As editor

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  • From Text to Txting: New Media in the Classroom, co-edited with Paul Budra (2012)
  • Lacan and the Environment, co-edited with Paul Kingsbury (2021)

References

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  1. ^ Riley, Ali (2005-12-17). "Novel straddles line between poetry, prose". Calgary Herald.
  2. ^ Fitzgerald, Judith (1998-03-07). "Poetry good, bad and ugly". The Globe and Mail.
  3. ^ Bacchus, Lee (1999-08-08). "Angst, anger and anxiety". The Province.
  4. ^ Koepke, Melora (2006-03-25). "Readers connect the dots: Author Clint Burnham deliberately leaves things a little vague". Vancouver Sun.
  5. ^ Hughes, Fiona (2006-03-17). "B.C. Book finalists include Coupland and Vaillant". Vancouver Courier.
  6. ^ "Zoe Whittall, Jordan Abel among writers shortlisted for ReLit Awards". CBC Books. 2018-04-09. Archived from the original on 2022-05-23. Retrieved 2023-04-23.
  7. ^ "Short fiction from Norma Dunning, David Huebert, Alix Ohlin among works shortlisted for 2022 ReLit Awards". CBC Books. 2022-05-09. Archived from the original on 2022-11-17. Retrieved 2023-04-23.