Poet, Writer and Visual Artist

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Shane Rhodes has published six books, including Dead White Men, which won the Ottawa Book Award, Err, which was nominated for the Ottawa Book Award, X: poems and anti poems, which created poetry out of Canada’s post-Confederation treaties, and The Wireless Room, which won the Alberta Book Award. His poetry has been featured in the anthologies Best Canadian Poetry, Resisting Canada and others and has been awarded the PK Page Founders Award for Poetry and a National Magazine Gold Award. In 2018, he was chosen to be the Queensland Poet in Residence, a three month residency in Brisbane, Australia, where her performed and gave workshops across the state of Queensland. He was also the poetry editor for five years of Arc, Canada’s national poetry magazine, and is a permanent member of the advisory board for The Fiddlehead.

As an artist, his most recent works has been focused on finding and recreating material to interrogate Canada’s history and ongoing colonization and settlement. He lives in Ottawa on unceded Algonquin, Anishinabek territory. He has art in a number of private and public collections, including the City of Ottawa permanent collection.