Tom Marshall (poet)

Thomas Archibald Marshall (April 9, 1938 – April 28, 1993) was a Canadian poet, critic and novelist.[1]

Tom Marshall
Born
Thomas Archibald Marshall

(1938-04-09)April 9, 1938
Niagara Falls, Ontario
DiedApril 28, 1993(1993-04-28) (aged 55)
Kingston, Ontario
NationalityCanadian
EducationQueen's University
Known forPoet, critic and novelist
Notable workThe Essential Tom Marshall, 2012

Born in Niagara Falls, Ontario,[1] he grew up in the United States.[2] He was educated at Queen's University in Kingston, where he received his MA in 1965, writing his thesis on poet A. M. Klein.[1][3] Marshall taught at the institution from 1964 until his death.[1]

Marshall was the author of numerous poetry collections and novels,[1] the poetry editor of Canadian Forum and the chief editor of Quarry.[3]

At the time of his death in 1993, Marshall had completed a final novel, The Adventures of John Montgomery.[4] The novel was posthumously published in 1995, and was reissued in 2014 as part of a series of historical novels set in Kingston.[4] The Essential Tom Marshall, an anthology of his poetry compiled by David Helwig and Michael Ondaatje, was published in 2012.[3]

Publications

Poetry
  • The Beast With Three Backs, (with Tom Eadie and Colin Norman.) Quarry Press, Kingston, n.d.. (1965)
  • The Silences of Fire. Macmillan, Toronto, 1969.
  • Magic Water. Quarry Press, Kingston, 1971.
  • The Earth Book. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1974.
  • The White City. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1976.
  • The Elements. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1980.
  • Playing with Fire. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1984.
  • Dance of the Particles. Kingston, Quarry Press, 1984.
  • Ghost Safari. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1991.
  • Some Impossible Heaven of the Senses. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1994.
  • The Essential Tom Marshall, 2012

Criticism
  • The Psychic Mariner: A Reading of the Poems of D.H. Lawrence. London and New York: Heineman and Viking Press, 1970. ISBN 9780670581900
  • A. M. Klein. Edited and with an introduction by Tom Marshall. Toronto, Ryerson Press, 1970. ISBN 9780770003104
  • Harsh and Lovely Land:The Major Canadian Poets and the Making of a Canadian Tradition. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press, 1979. ISBN 9780774801072
  • Multiple Exposures, Promised Lands:Essays on Canadian Poetry and Fiction. Kingston, Quarry Press, 1992. ISBN 9781550820478

Fiction
  • Rosemary Goal. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1978. (Harper Collins, paper.)
  • Glass Houses. Ottawa, Oberon Press, 1985.
  • Adele at the End of the Day. Toronto, Macmillan, 1987. (Vintage Books, 1990.)
  • Voices on the Brink. Toronto, Macmillan, 1988. (Faber and Faber,paper.)
  • Changelings. Toronto, Macmillan, 1991. (McClelland and Stewart, paper.)
  • Goddess Disclosing. Kingston, Quarry Press, 1992
  • The Adventures of John Montgomery. Kingston, Quarry Press, 1995.

References
  1. Tom Marshall in The Canadian Encyclopedia.
  2. New, William H. (2002). Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 717. ISBN 9780802007612.
  3. "An absolutely essential read". Kingston Whig-Standard, June 14, 2012.
  4. Merilyn Simonds, "The irrepressible Henry Eustace MacFutter". Kingston Whig-Standard, November 25, 2014.


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