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Gil McElroy

Born in Metz, France, poet Gil McElroy grew up on air force bases in Canada and the United States. He studied English Literature at Queen’s University in Ontario. His poems and other works have been published in countless periodicals throughout North America since the late 1970s; issued in a number of self-published chapbooks, broadsheets, and one-of-a-kind book works; and anthologized in Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993–2003 (Broken Jaw Press, 2003), Side/Lines: A New Canadian Poetics (Insomniac Press, 2003), and Written in the Skin (Insomniac Press, 1999). He currently lives in Colborne, Ontario with his wife Heather.

McElroy has also been an independent curator and freelance art critic for 20 years, organizing exhibitions for public art galleries and museums in Canada and writing art criticism for magazines in Canada, the United States and Australia. A selection of his catalogue essays and reviews was published as Gravity & Grace: Selected Writing on Contemporary Canadian Art (Gaspereau Press, 2001) and in the anthology CRAFT Perception and Practice: A Canadian Discourse (Ronsdale Press, 2002). His show ST. ART: The Visual Poetry of bpNichol pays tribute to one of the great poets of the twentieth century. Originally mounted at the Confederation Centre Art Gallery & Museum in Charlottetown, P.E.I. in May through October, 2000, it later moved to the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia before touring the country throughout 2001. McElroy’s curatorial essay accompanying the exhibition also won the Christina Sabat Award for Critical Writing in the Arts.

Awards and Recognition
Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for Poetry Finalist (2002) Dream Pool Essays
Christina Sabat Award for Art Criticism (2001) Ground States: The Visual Contexts of bpNichol.

March 2013 : Gil McElroy Joins Versefest in Ottawa

September 2012 : Colborne Legion presents Cold Comfort Author

July 2011 : In Piazza San Domenico, Ordinary Time, and Rebuild are here!

BOOK AWARDS

Relit Longlist, 2008

BOOK AWARDS

Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Finalist, 2002

QUOTES OF NOTE

A master of the craft…[McElroy] is very, very intelligent and his ear is infallible.
— Arc

QUOTES OF NOTE

A master of the craft…[McElroy] is very, very intelligent and his ear is infalliable…
— Arc

QUOTES OF NOTE

The expected subjects of faith, work, nature, solitude and writing itself are represented with clarity and beauty.
— Canadian Literature