Joe Denham is a Canadian poet and fiction writer."Windstorm, by Joe Denham". Quill & Quire, October 2010. He is most noted for his 2016 collection Regeneration Machine, which won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry"Poignancy wins poetry prize" . B. C. BookWorld, June 20, 2016. and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2016 Governor General's Awards."Governor-General’s Literary Award short list a serious case of déjà vu". The Globe and Mail, October 4, 2016.
He published his first poetry chapbook, Night Haul, Morning Set, in 2002."A Review of: Flux". Books in Canada. The collection was then included in his first commercially published book, Flux, the following year. He has since published the poetry collections Windstorm and Regeneration Machine, and the novel The Year of Broken Glass."‘The Year of Broken Glass’ by Joe Denham". The Winnipeg Review, September 22, 2011. Some sources have also incorrectly credited him with the novel Sins of the Fishermen, which was in fact written by an unrelated American lawyer.
Denham resides in Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia,"Half-Moon Bay poet short-listed for GG’s Literary Award". Victoria Times-Colonist, October 5, 2016. where he has worked as a commercial fisherman."Poetry". Toronto Star, February 13, 2016. He studied creative writing at the University of Victoria."Author, author". Victoria Times-Colonist, January 9, 2003.
Works Poetry Night Haul, Morning Set (2002) Flux (2003) Windstorm (2010) Regeneration Machine (2016)
Fiction The Year of Broken Glass (2011)
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