Roger Moore

1944-

Roger Gerald Moore was born in 1944 on The Gower and attended primary school in Wales and then went to England for public school, spending seven years at Wycliffe College. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Bristol in 1966. He then immigrated to Canada to study in Toronto, receiving an MA in Spanish language and literature from the University of Toronto in 1967 and a PhD in 1975. In 1971 he moved to Fredericton, where he spent his first year lecturing at the University of New Brunswick. The rest of his career was spent teaching Spanish language and literature at St. Thomas University (STU). His thirty-seven-year career at STU was recognized by an Excellence in Teaching Award (1996), a Distinguished Teacher Award from the Atlantic Association of Universities (1997), and a 3M National Teaching Fellowship in 2000. St. Thomas named him Professor Emeritus in 2010. Moore’s early creative work was in poetry, for which he received first prize at the Stroud International Festival of the Arts in 1962.  He published his first collection of poems, Last Year in Paradise, in 1978. His second collection of poems, Broken Ghosts, was released in 1986. He self-published a series of six chapbooks beginning in 1990, each linked to STU’s Writes of Spring event. Those chapbooks are Idlewood (1990), In the Art Gallery (1991), Secret Gardens (1991), Daffodils (1992), Iberian Interludes (1992), and On Being Welsh (1993). His manuscripts “Still Lives”, and “Alban Angels” received the Alfred G. Bailey Prize in 1989 and 1995 respectively. In the next decade he published mostly with Mount Saint Vincent University Press: Sun and Moon: Poems from Oaxaca, Mexico (2000), Though Lovers Be Lost (2000), Fundy Lines (2002), At the Edge of Obsidian: A Book of Hours, Oaxaca, Mexico (2005), Obsidian 22 (2007), Land of Rocks and Saints: Poems from Ávila (2008), and Monkey Temple (2012). He also continued to self-publish chapbooks: Granite Ship: Lines from Ávila (2006), M Press of Ire (2008), All About Angels (2009), and Dewi Sant (2010). Many of Moore’s stories appeared in Atlantic Canadian journals beginning in 1990. In 2010,  “The Weavers” won first prize in the Writers’ Federation of New Brunswick short story category, while People of the Mist, a novel, was runner up for the WFNB David Adams Richards Prize in 2011.  Moore was among the first cohort of five artists to take up residence at the first Kingsbrae International Residency for the Arts at St. Andrews, New Brunswick in June 2017. One Small Corner, subtitled A Kingsbrae Chronicle, was written and produced during this artistic residency. One of Moore’s first published stories, “Birthday Suit,” later became the basis for a script that Moore turned into a film. In 1996, he enrolled in the Multimedia Studies program at the University of New Brunswick, receiving his certificate in 1999 (he returned in 2002 for a digital film and video course which led directly to his work with the New Brunswick Film Co-op).

Predominant New Brunswick Residences:

Fredericton