Tom Wayman

2013 marked 40 years since the publication of Tom Wayman’s first collection of poems, Waiting for Wayman (McClelland and Stewart, 1973), and since then he has had more than a dozen other books of poems published, as well as three books of fiction and three collections of essays. He has also edited six anthologies of poetry, many by people writing about their own daily employment.

To celebrate his first 40 years as an author, in 2014 Wilfrid Laurier University Press will issue a selected poems, The Order in Which We Do Things, edited by Owen Percy, and Lynx House Press in Spokane will publish a U.S. selected poems, Built to Take It. Wayman’s two most recent books of poems are Dirty Snow (Harbour, 2012), which won the 2013 national Acorn-Plantos Award, and Winter’s Skin (Oolichan, 2013).

Born in the Ottawa valley, Wayman grew up in Prince Rupert and Vancouver, and now lives far inland in B.C.’s southern Selkirk Mountains.