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Asian Heritage in Canada
Authors
Chan, Weyman
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Weyman Chan's parents immigrated to Canada from the Toi San district of Guangdong province in China. Chan was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1963 and he continues to live there. He has published poetry and short stories in a variety of literary journals and anthologies. In 2002, he was awarded a silver prize in the poetry category of the National Magazine Awards for his poem "At work", that appeared in The Capilano Review. |
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Poetry
Before a Blue Sky Moon
Calgary, Alta.: Frontenac House, 2002.
(Series: Quartet 2002)
Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)
Before a Blue Sky Moon deals with themes of childhood, displacement, loss and redemption both spiritual and secular, the meaning of personal love, and at the same time gives us stunning and magical insights into a Chinese Canadian family.
Awards and Honours
2003 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry--Alberta Book Awards/Writers Guild of Alberta (Winner)
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Poetry
Hypoderm: Notes to Myself
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2010.
9th floor PS8555 .H39246 H96 2010
Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)
The idea for this book, says Weyman Chan, is simple—approach the world as metaphor, and it will come to you. Subtitled “notes to myself,” Hypoderm is a manifesto of observations, intimations and recognitions of mortality that get under the poet’s skin—that remind the reader that poetry is documentation and speculation, not a sentimental fabrication of the rapture (rupture) of our “end times.”
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Noise From the Laundry
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2008.
9th floor PS8555 .H39246 N63 2008
Publisher's Synopsis (from its website)
As Weyman Chan crafts words for his stratified layers of landscape across space and time, a path is made for the reader to follow. Beneath the narrative foliage of Chinese pre-history, family stories of love and survival, and wanderings from the compass point of the conventional, our sage “teaches all / and leaves none out”—what it takes to enter this new world is our willingness to travel with some unlikely spirit guides: a five-thousand-year-old, elixir-wearied Lunar rabbit; an old man who wears the sun’s countenance; a microscopist in search of constellations in the illusion of darkness beyond death.
Awards and Honours
2008 Governor General's Literary Awards--Poetry (English) (Finalist) |
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