Diane Keating

Diane Keating
Occupation poet, novelist
Nationality Canadian
Period 1970s-present
Notable works No Birds or Flowers

Diane Keating is a Canadian writer.[1] She is most noted for her poetry collection No Birds or Flowers, which was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 1982 Governor General's Awards.[2] She published two further poetry collections in the 1980s,[3] as well as the career anthology The Year One: New and Selected Poems in 2001.[4]

In 1989, her short story "The Crying Out" was published in the Journey Prize anthology,[5] and in 1991, she was a Journey Prize finalist for her short story "The Salem Letters".[6] Both stories were excerpts from a novel in progress, which was originally slated for publication in 1992[7] but was withdrawn at that time and was not published until 2014.[8]

Works

References

  1. ↑ "Bantering bards revel in each other's differences". Vancouver Sun, April 10, 1992.
  2. ↑ "Finalists declared in literary awards". The Globe and Mail, May 25, 1983.
  3. ↑ "Poetry for eyes and ears". The Globe and Mail, August 17, 1985.
  4. ↑ "Good Reasons to Publish Selected Poems". Books in Canada.
  5. ↑ "Anthology has Canada's best". Calgary Herald, August 26, 1989.
  6. ↑ "Prize finalists named". Halifax Daily News, September 1, 1991.
  7. ↑ "Publishers unleash bumper book crop". Toronto Star, February 22, 1992.
  8. ↑ "Connection to Salem burdened by gloom". Winnipeg Free Press, January 17, 2015.


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