George Swede





After studying creative writing at Toronto's Three Schools of Art, I published my first poem in 1968. The following links give different perspectives on my publications in poetry, fiction and non-fiction: Millikin University Haiku Writer Profiles, The Writers' Union of Canada, League of Canadian Poets, Canadian Haiku Poets, Terebess Asia Online, Wikipedia. For more details, go to these search engines: Clusty (it clusters the results), Google, MSN or Yahoo. For hard copy data, see Canadian Who's Who, Contemporary Authors or Dictionary of Int'l Biography.

                                 Writing/Publishing   Reviews/Translations    The Haiku    Beyond the Haiku    Experimental Poetry    Longer Poems   
                                                              Rhyme &Reason
    Children's Wrtiting     Published Books
   Influences   Editing/Judging/Admin
                                                   


  
                                             Writing/Publishing
  Reviews/Translations   The Haiku   Beyond the Haiku     Experimental Poetry    Longer Poetry   
                                             Rhyme & Reason     Children's Writing       Published Books   Influences  Editing/Judging/Admin

                                                                        Publications--An Overview 

Published Poems
: 1, 978 in about 7, 200 places, including collections (such as Almost Unseen) and anthologies (such as The Haiku Anthology and The Tanka Anthology), literary periodicals (such as Canadian Literature and Simply Haiku), academic journals (such as Journal of Humanistic Psychology, Wilson Quarterly), newspapers (including Globe and Mail, London Times, New York Times, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, Washington Post), radio (including BBC, CBC, NHK, PBS, RTE) and TV (including CBC, CTV, NHK).

Haiku Books:
Collections, 18; as editor, 3 (the latest being Global Haiku); as critic, 1; as consulting editor, 8.

Other Books of Poetry: Collections: 13 (such as this one for children, Time Is Flies); as editor, 4; as consulting editor, 1.
 
Non-Poetry Books:  Children's fiction, 7, psychology, 2.

Periodical Publications: Poetry in 711; articles on poetry in 83 (for instance, as a former columnist for Simply Haiku); articles on psychology in 17.

Anthology Inclusions:  Poetry, 139;  Fiction,  2;  Psychology, 1 (Poetic Innovation).

Gallery Shows Visual Poetry: 5 (e.g.,Visualog 3);  Other: 1 (3LIGHTS)

Haiga: 15: 9 on a CD
See Haiku Here by Kuni Shimizu; 3 collaborations with Jonathan Aitken on Simply Haiku

Computer  Game: 12 poems in Haiku Journey

Writing Awards: 85
   
Most Recent Collection
: First Light, First Shadows. Liverpool: Snapshot Press, 2006. This book won first prize in the The Snapshot Press Tanka Collection Competition 2005.  It is available from Snapshot as well as from a number of Internet booksellers, such as Amazon and Alibris.

Current Writerly Position: Editor of Frogpond: The Journal of the Haiku Society of America