Brian Henderson (poet)

Brian Henderson (born 1948) is a Canadian writer and poet whose book of poetry Nerve Language was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2007. Sharawadji was nominated for the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry in 2011.

Henderson, born in Kitchener, Ontario, has a PhD in Canadian Literature from York University. He has published many articles and reviews, and is also the Director of Wilfrid Laurier University Press and a photographer. Henderson has worked as a university instructor, a phone jack installer, a traffic counter, a shipper/receiver, and a rock drummer.

He is the author of ten collections of poetry including The Alphamiricon, a deck of visual poem-cards. His work has been published in many small magazines. In the 1970s Henderson was a founding editor of RUNE.

He is the director of Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

His poetry and literary criticism has appeared in Arc, Antigonish Review, Canadian Forum, Canadian Literature, CVII, Descant, ECW, The fiddlehead, Prism, Quarry, Rampike, Rune (of which he was a founding editor for its decade of existence), Scrivener, Writ and many other literary journals since 1974.

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