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David Solway
Canadian poet, educational theorist, travel writer and literary critic From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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David Solway (born 8 December 1941) is a Canadian poet, essayist, educational theorist, travel writer, and literary critic.[1][2][3]
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Solway received a BA in English and Philosophy from McGill University in 1962, and a QMA in Philosophy in 1966.[4] He has later received a MA in creative writing/English from Concordia University in 1988, a MA in education from Université de Sherbrooke in 1996, and a Ph.D summa cum laude from Lajos Kossuth University in Debrecen in 1998.[5] He was formerly a teacher at Dawson College and John Abbott College in Montreal, and at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah,[4] and has been a guest lecturer at several international universities.[5] He has "won numerous awards and prizes for his work in both poetry and non-fiction,"[4] including QSPELL Awards, Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal and A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry.[5]
Solway is known for his work both as a poet, essayist and as a teacher, as well as for his polemical outspokenness, especially in opposition to Islam and in defense of Zionism.[6] He has contributed political commentary to the conservative websites WorldNetDaily and PJ Media, and has been described as a part of the counter-jihad movement.[7]
For inspiration, he invented a Greek poet named Andreas Karavis as a heteronym, whose work he published in apparent translation.[5]
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Bibliography
Poetry
- The Road to Arginos (1976)
- Twelve Sonnets (1978)
- Mephistopheles and the Astronaut (1979)
- Stones in Water (1983)
- Modern Marriage (1987)
- Bedrock (1993)
- Chess Pieces (1999)
- Saracen Island: The Poetry of Andreas Karavis (as Andreas Karavis; 2000)
- The Lover's Progress: Poems after William Hogarth (2001)
- Franklin's Passage (2003)
- The Pallikari Of Nesmine Rifat (as Nesmine Rifat; 2005)
- Reaching for Clear: The Poetry of Rhys Savarin (2007)
- Windsurfing (2008)
Essays and criticism
- Education Lost (1989)
- Random Walks
- Lying about the Wolf: Essays in Culture & Education (1997)
- The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods: Liberal Studies in the Corporate Age (2000)
- An Andreas Karavis Companion (2000)
- Director's Cut (2003)
- The Big Lie: On Terror, Antisemitism, and Identity (2007)
- Hear, O Israel! (2009)
- Notes from a Derelict Culture (2019)
- Crossing the Jordan: On Judaism, Islam, and the West (2024)
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