Brian Bartlett

1953-

Brian Bartlett (poet, editor, and English professor) was born 1 October 1953 in St. Stephen, NB. His publications include six collections of poetry: The Watchmaker’s Table (2008), Wanting the Day: Selected Poems (2003), The Afterlife of Trees (2002), Granite Erratics (1997), Underwater Carpentry (1993), and Planet Harbour (1989). He has also published five chapbooks: Being Charlie (2009), Travels of the Watch (2004), Cattail Week (1981), Brother’s Insomnia (1972), and Finches for the Wake (1971). Bartlett has also edited three compilations: Don McKay: Essays on His Works (2006), Earthly Pages: The Poetry of Don Domanski (2007), and The Essential James Reaney (2009). Bartlett moved to Fredericton in 1957 and attended public school in Fredericton, moving between Albert Street School, Connaught Street School, and Montgomery Street School during his primary years. For secondary education, he attended Albert Street Junior High School and then Fredericton High School. He attended the University of New Brunswick for his Bachelor of Arts degree (English with Honours) and then attended the Université de Montréal for his PhD, where he wrote a thesis on the work of A.R. Ammons. After graduating with his PhD, Bartlett lived in Montreal for fifteen years while teaching at Concordia University. In 1990, he moved to Halifax, NS to teach English at St. Mary’s University. Bartlett has been honoured with national and international fellowships and awards. These include the 2009 Acorn-Plantos People’s Poetry Award, the 2004 Atlantic Poetry Prize, the 2000 Petra Kenney Poetry Award, the 1991 and 1998 Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, a 1996 Hawthorndon Castle International Writers’ Fellowship, and a 1993 Banff Writers’ Studio Scholarship.