Jim Nason

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Jim Nason at Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto, Canada in 2023

Jim Nason is a Canadian writer from Toronto, Ontario.[1] He is most noted for his poetry collection Rooster, Dog, Crow, which was a shortlisted finalist for the Raymond Souster Award in 2019.[2]

He has also been nominated for several ReLit Awards, receiving nods in the Poetry category for Narcissus Unfolding in 2012 [3] and Touch Anywhere to Begin in 2017,[4] and in the Short Fiction category for The Girl on the Escalator in 2012.[3]

He published his debut poetry collection If Lips Were As Red in 1991, but put his writing career on hold for a number of years to work as a caregiver for people with HIV/AIDS. He returned to writing in the 2000s following the death of his partner,[5] publishing the poetry collection The Fist of Remembering in 2006 and the novel The Housekeeping Journals, based in part on his own experiences as a caregiver, in 2007.[6]

He became the owner and publisher of Tightrope Books in 2014.

Works

Novels

  • The Housekeeping Journals - 2007
  • I Thought I Would Be Happy - 2013
  • Spirit of a Hundred Thousand Dead Animals - 2017

Short Fiction

  • The Girl on the Escalator - 2011

Poetry

  • If Lips Were As Red - 1991
  • The Fist of Remembering - 2006
  • Narcissus Unfolding - 2011
  • Music Garden - 2013
  • Touch Anywhere to Begin - 2016
  • Rooster, Dog, Crow - 2018
  • Blue Suitcase: Documentary Poetics - 2021
  • Self-Portrait Embracing a Fabulous Beast - 2023

References

  1. ^ John Barton, "Self-Portrait Embracing a Fabulous Beast". Alberta Views, December 1, 2023.
  2. ^ Deborah Dundas, "Poetry prize short lists released". Toronto Star, April 24, 2019.
  3. ^ a b Steven W. Beattie, "ReLit (very) longlists announced". Quill & Quire, September 4, 2012.
  4. ^ "Zoe Whittall, Jordan Abel among writers shortlisted for ReLit Awards". CBC Books, April 9, 2018.
  5. ^ Jorge Antonio Vallejos, "The skin Jim lives in". Xtra Magazine, February 9, 2012.
  6. ^ Bob Armstrong, "Powerful tour through world few will experience". Winnipeg Free Press, September 23, 2007.


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