Roy Miki
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Roy Akira Miki, CM, FRSC (born October 10, 1942) is a Canadian poet and scholar.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to second generation Japanese-Canadian parents, he attended the University of Manitoba, the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University, where he is currently a professor emeritus. He lives in Vancouver. He is very active is the Japanese-Canadian community and has fought hard for redress from the federal government for the internment of Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War.
In 2006, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. [1] In 2007, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 2009, he was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia.
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[edit] Works
[edit] Poetry
- 1991: In Saving Face: Poems Selected, 1976-1988
- 1995: Random Access File, poems
- 2001: Surrender, winner of the 2002 Governor General's Award for poetry
- 2006: There
- 2011: Mannequin Rising
[edit] Critical studies
- 1983: The Prepoetics of William Carlos Williams
- 1990: An annotated bibliography of George Bowering
- 1988: Tracing the Paths, a book on bpNichol
- 2004: Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian Call for Justice
[edit] Editor
- 1985: This Is My Own: Letters to Wes and Other Writings on Japanese-Canadians, 1941-1948 by Muriel Kitagawa (1985)
- 1997: Pacific Windows: The Collected Poems of Roy Kiyooka (1997)
[edit] Other
- 1998: Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing, essays
[edit] References
[edit] External links
Categories:
- 1942 births
- Living people
- Canadian poets
- Canadian people of Japanese descent
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
- Members of the Order of British Columbia
- Members of the Order of Canada
- Simon Fraser University faculty
- Simon Fraser University alumni
- University of Manitoba alumni
- People from Winnipeg
- Governor General's Award winning poets
- Canadian writers of Asian descent
