Shane Rhodes

Template:Short description Shane Rhodes is a Canadian poet.

Life

He graduated from the University of New Brunswick, and currently lives in Ottawa.

He is a two-time winner of the Archibald Lampman Award for poetry. In 2008, when his work The Bindery won the award, Rhodes turned over half of the $1,500 prize money to the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, a First Nations health centre. At the time the award was named the Lampman-Scott Award, honouring both Archibald Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott, and Rhodes felt that Scott's legacy as a civil servant who was responsible for some of Canada's more controversial policy legacy on First Nations issues overshadowed his work as a pioneer of Canadian poetry.

Rhodes identifies as bisexual. His work was included in John Barton and Billeh Nickerson's 2007 anthology Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets.

Awards

• Alberta Book Award for poetry, for The Wireless Room
• 2003 Archibald Lampman Award, for Holding Pattern
• 2008 Lampman-Scott Award, for The Bindery
• The 2009 PK Page Founders Award for Poetry from the Malahat Review
• Winner of the 34th National Magazine Awards for poetry (2011)
• Winner of the 2018 City of Ottawa Book Award, for Dead White Men [1]

Works

• Chapbook
• broadside

Anthologies

• New Canadian Poetry. Even Jones, ed. Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 2000.
• The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008. Stephanie Bolster, ed. Tightrope Books, 2008.
• Best Gay Poetry 2008. Lawrence Schimel, ed. A Midsummer Night's Press: New York, 2008.
• Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. Melissa Tuckey, ed. University of Georgia Press, 2018.