Jordan Abel

Jordan Abel is a Nisga'a poet who lives and works in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.[1]

Jordan Abel
Abel in 2019
BornBritish Columbia, Canada
OccupationPoet
Period2010s-present
Website
www.jordanabel.ca

Life and work

Abel, a Nisga'a poet, was born in British Columbia. Formerly a doctoral student at Simon Fraser University in the Department of English, he is currently a professor at the University of Alberta. Abel's work addresses settler-colonialism directly, often through conceptual poetic approaches to overtly colonial texts (for example, Abel's books cut up, sample, and interrupt the Project Gutenberg archive of Western novels and Marius Barbeau's Totem Poles).

His first book of poetry, The Place of Scraps (Talonbooks), used as source text the work of 20th century ethnographer Marius Barbeau.[2] It won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award in 2014.[3][4] His second book, Un/inhabited, was named one of the best 75 books of 2015 by the CBC.[5][6]

Abel's third and most recent book of poetry, Injun, won the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2017.[7] The poems were based on 91 Western novels written during the past three centuries.[8]

Abel's fourth book of poetry, NISHGA, is yet to be released. It was originally slated for release on 14 April 2020, but was delayed to 20 December 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[9]

Poetry

References
  1. "Professor Listing – Jordan Abel". University of Alberta. Retrieved 3 April 2020.
  2. "The Place of Scraps". CBC Books. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  3. "Jordan Abel's The Place of Scraps". Jacket2. 8 August 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  4. "Arthur Erickson biography claims pair of B.C. Book Prizes". The Globe and Mail. 5 May 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  5. "CBCbooks.ca Best of Books of the Year – 2015" (PDF). Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  6. "Jordan Abel". CBC Books. 24 June 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  7. "Jordan Abel wins $65K Griffin Poetry Prize for Injun". CBC Books. 8 June 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
  8. "Vancouver poet Jordan Abel wins $65,000 Griffin Poetry Prize". Toronto Star, Lauren La RoseThe Canadian Press, 9 June 2017
  9. "penguinrandomhouse.ca NISHGA by Jordan Abel". Retrieved 3 April 2020.


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