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Stephen Collis

Stephen Collis is the author of over a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Commons (2008), On the Material (2010), winner of the BC Book Prize, and Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten (2018) – all published by Talonbooks. A History of the Theories of Rain (2021) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, and in 2019 Collis was the recipient of the Writers' Trust of Canada Latner Poetry Prize. The Middle is the second volume of a trilogy begun with A History of the Theories of Rain. He lives near Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish Territory, and teaches poetry and poetics at Simon Fraser University.

A History of the Theories of Rain

Short-listed 2021 Governor General's Award for Poetry

Once in Blockadia

Short-listed 2017 George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature

On the Material

Winner 2011 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize