Flow: Poems Collected and New

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Both a Member of the Order of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Governor General Award winner Roy Miki is one of Canada's preeminent poets. Flow: Collected Poems of Roy Miki gathers together work from his critically acclaimed poetry collections - Saving Face, Random Access File, Surrender, There, and Mannequin Rising - as well as a substantial section of new, previously unpublished works. This is the fourth volume in a new series of collected works published by Talonbooks. The first three are Phyllis Webb's Peacock Blue: The Collected Poems, Fred Wah's Scree: The Collected Early Poems, 1962-1991, and Daphne Marlatt's Intertidal: The Collected Earlier Poems, 1968-2008.

Roy Miki is an award-winning writer, poet, and critic who taught for many years at Simon Fraser University. He has written extensively on the work of bpNichol and edited Pacific Windows: Collected Poems of Roy K. Kiyooka, which won the 1997 Poetry Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. His major bibliographic study, A Record of Writing: An Annotated and Illustrated Bibliography of George Bowering, won the Gabrielle Roy Prize from the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures as the best book on Canadian Literature of 1991. He was awarded the Governor General's Award for Poetry for Surrender (2001). He is also the editor of Muriel Kitagawa's This Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese Canadians (1985); Tracing the Paths: Reading' Writing The Martyrology (1988); and Meanwhile: The Critical Writings of bpNichol; and co-editor with Cassandra Kobayashi of Justice In Our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement. Miki lives in Vancouver.

"Miki's reputation is that of an innovator whose work explores themes of race, class, politics and history." -CBC Books "I quite like that the collection ends with an interview with Miki, a focus on his own words on his work that I appreciate, providing multiple insights and entrances into his writing and thinking." -robmclennan