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Colin Browne

Writer, filmmaker, teacher, critic and poet Colin Browne is the author of Abraham (Brick Books, 1987), the critically acclaimed book of poetry Ground Water (Talonbooks, 2002), which was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award in 2002 and a BC Book Prize in 2003, and The Shovel (Talonbooks, 2007), which was shortlisted for the 2008 ReLit Award. Browne was an editor of Writing magazine and co-founder of the Kootenay School of Writing.

Browne has made films for the National Film Board, is co-founder of the Praxis Centre for Screenwriters and is active in the preservation and conservation of archival film through the establishment of a western Canadian sound and moving image archive. His documentary films include Father and Son and White Lake, which was nominated for a Canadian Film Award for Best Feature Documentary. His 2003 documentary portrait of jazz musician Linton Garner, Linton Garner: I Never Said Goodbye, was screened at the Vancouver Film Festival and aired on CBC’s Opening Night series.

Browne teaches production, screenwriting and film history at Simon Fraser University’s School for the Contemporary Arts.

December 2011 : Talonbooks Presents Karl and Christy Siegler's Farewell Bash

BOOK AWARDS

Finalist for the 2008 ReLit Award for Poetry

BOOK AWARDS

Finalist for the 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry

Finalist for the 2003 BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

QUOTES OF NOTE

“The skill and intense ardor of the mind at work … is delightful.”
— Fred Wah

“The epic sweep of pieces is impressive, at times rapturous. They are worth digging for.”
— Quill & Quire

“Colin Browne seems willing to try just about anything in his writing; certainly his accomplishments soar in The Shovel, a searing collection of meditations on history, war, destruction, and the savage inheritances of memory.”
— Canadian Literature

QUOTES OF NOTE

"Browne fosters in Ground Water not only polyvocality but a ranging polyformality of spacious collage, tight lists, knotted rambunctious densities of word and sentence, sonic wordplay, narrative and lyric." — Publishers Weekly

"You are different after you have read this book." — The Georgia Straight