Barry Dempster is the author of two volumes of short stories, a novel, a children's book, and nine previous collections of poetry, the most recent of which, The Burning Alphabet, won the 2006 Canadian Authors' Association Jack Chalmers Award and was nominated for the 2005 Governor General's Award for Poetry. Born and raised in Toronto, he presently lives in Holland Landing, Ontario, where he runs a film series, two book clubs and a writing group.

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Brick Books by Barry Dempster

• The Burning Alphabet (2005)
• Letters From A Long Illness With The World: the D.H. Lawrence Poems (1993)
• Love Outlandish (2009)