Todd Swift (born April 8, 1966) is a Canadian poet, editor, cultural activist and university lecturer based in the United Kingdom. Swift was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and raised in Saint-Lambert, Quebec. He received a BA in English from Concordia University and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. While attending university, Swift was one of Canada's most successful parliamentary debaters. He was President of the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate and twice won the award for Top Speaker at the McGill University Winter Carnival Debating Tournament, as well as many other awards. Swift is the author or editor of numerous collections of poetry. His works have been translated into Arabic, Croatian, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian and Korean. He has written for a number of publications, poems and reviews appearing in journals such as The Dubliner, The Globe and Mail, Books In Canada, Poetry London and The Guardian. Since 2004 he has been Oxfam Great Britain's Poet-in-residence.[1] He is a core tutor with The Poetry School.
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Bibliography
Poetry (selected pamphlets)
- The End of the Century - 1990
- The Cone of Silence - 1991
- American Standard - 1996
- Elegy for Anthony Perkins - 2001
- The Oil and Gas University -Lapwing Publications, 2004
- Natural Curve - 2006
Poetry (full collections)
- Budavox - 1999
- Café Alibi - 2002
- Rue du Regard - 2004
- Winter Tennis - 2007
Anthologies
- Map-makers' Colours: New Poets of Northern Ireland - 1988 (with Martin Mooney)
- Poetry Nation: The North American Anthology of Fusion Poetry - 1998 (with Regie Cabico)
- Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry - 2002 (with Phil Norton)
- 100 Poets Against the War - 2003
- In the Criminal's Cabinet - 2004
- Future Welcome: The Moosehead Anthology X - 2005
- Life Lines: Poets for Oxfam - 2006 (Audio CD)
