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Clint Burnham

January 29, 2015

Clint Burnham was born in Comox, British Columbia, which is on the traditional territory of the K’ómoks (Sathloot) First Nation, centred historically on kwaniwsam. He lives and teaches on the traditional ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including traditional territories of the Squamish (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw), Tsleil-Waututh (səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ), Musqueam (xʷməθkʷəy̓əm), and Kwikwetlem (kʷikʷəƛ̓əm) Nations. Clint is Professor of English at Simon Fraser University; his most recent books are Lacan and the Environment (Palgrave, co-edited with Paul Kingsbury) and White Lie (Anvil, fiction).


Works by Clint Burnham

OpinionsArticlesBook ReviewsPoetryBook Reviews of Author

Opinions by Clint Burnham

Clint Burnham Interviews Kevin Chong
By Clint Burnham
Published in Pandemics Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 245 (2021): 152-157.
Afterword: 21st-Century Poetics
By Christine Stewart and Clint Burnham
Published in 21st-Century Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 210-211 (Autumn/Winter 2011): 263-266.
Multiculturalism Novel

Articles by Clint Burnham

The Plague of Orientalism: Reading Kevin Chong in the Pandemic
By Clint Burnham
Published in Pandemics Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 245 (2021): 128-149.

Book Reviews by Clint Burnham

The Debt
By Clint Burnham
Published in Recursive Time. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 222 (Autumn 2014): 177-79.
  • The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry by Valerie Mason-John (Editor) and Kevan Anthony Cameron (Editor)
  • Africadian Atlantic: Essays on George Elliott Clarke by Joseph Pivato
Poetry After Poetry
By Clint Burnham
Published in New Work on Early Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 213 (Summer 2012): 160-162.
  • Fond by Kate Eichhorn
  • Inventory by Marguerite Pigeon
  • sublingual by bill bissett
Afro-Canadian Atlantic Canada Canadian Studies Poetry
Animal Laughter
By Clint Burnham
Published in Canadian Literature 212 (Spring 2012): 163-164.
  • The Prescription Errors by Charles Demers
  • Animals by Don LePan
Poetry
Conceptualism
By Clint Burnham
Published in First Nations Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 167 (Winter 2000): 120-121.
  • Island Thought: An Archipelagic Journey Published at Irregular Intervals, #1 by Robert Graham (Editor)
Olson Happens
By Clint Burnham
Published in Of Borders and Bioregions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 218 (Autumn 2013): 154.
  • Muthologos: Lectures and Interviews by Charles Olson and Ralph Maud (Editor)
  • When TISH Happens: The Unlikely Story of Canada's "Most Influential Literary Magazine" by Frank Davey

Poetry by Clint Burnham

Dim Son
By Clint Burnham
Published in Home, Memory, Self. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 203 (Winter 2009): 40-40.
Literary Criticism Poetry Twenty-First Century
from "Buddyland"
By Clint Burnham
Published in Contemporary Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 155 (Winter 1997): 135-135.
Art British Columbia Essays Film

Book Reviews of Clint Burnham's Works

Be Labour Reading
By Clint Burnham
Reviewed in Culture Surfing by Stephen Ross
Airborne Photo
By Clint Burnham
Reviewed in Vanished Frames by Tamas Dobozy
Cultural Studies Poetry
Rental Van
By Clint Burnham
Reviewed in Language Movements by Aaron Giovannone
Poetry
The Only Poetry That Matters: Reading the Kootenay School of Writing
By Clint Burnham
Reviewed in Signifier Desire by Gregory Betts
Poetry