David Solway

David Solway (born 8 December 1941) is a Canadian poet, essayist, educational theorist, travel writer, and literary critic.[1][2][3]

Biography

Solway received a BA in English and Philosophy from McGill University in 1962, and a QMA in Philosophy in 1966.[4] He has later received a MA in creative writing/English from Concordia University in 1988, a MA in education from Université de Sherbrooke in 1996, and a Ph.D summa cum laude from Lajos Kossuth University in Debrecen in 1998.[5] He was formerly a teacher at Dawson College and John Abbott College in Montreal, and at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah,[4] and has been a guest lecturer at several international universities.[5] He has "won numerous awards and prizes for his work in both poetry and non-fiction,"[4] including QSPELL Awards, Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal and A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry.[5]

Solway is known for his work both as a poet, essayist and as a teacher, as well as for his polemical outspokenness, especially in opposition to Islam and in defense of Zionism.[6] He has contributed political commentary to the conservative websites WorldNetDaily and PJ Media, and has been described as a part of the counter-jihad movement.[7]

For inspiration, he invented a Greek poet named Andreas Karavis as a heteronym, whose work he published in apparent translation.[5]

Bibliography

Poetry

  • The Road to Arginos (1976)
  • Twelve Sonnets (1978)
  • Mephistopheles and the Astronaut (1979)
  • Stones in Water (1983)
  • Modern Marriage (1987)
  • Bedrock (1993)
  • Chess Pieces (1999)
  • Saracen Island: The Poetry of Andreas Karavis (as Andreas Karavis; 2000)
  • The Lover's Progress: Poems after William Hogarth (2001)
  • Franklin's Passage (2003)
  • The Pallikari Of Nesmine Rifat (as Nesmine Rifat; 2005)
  • Reaching for Clear: The Poetry of Rhys Savarin (2007)
  • Windsurfing (2008)

Essays and criticism

  • Education Lost (1989)
  • Random Walks
  • Lying about the Wolf: Essays in Culture & Education (1997)
  • The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods: Liberal Studies in the Corporate Age (2000)
  • An Andreas Karavis Companion (2000)
  • Director's Cut (2003)
  • The Big Lie: On Terror, Antisemitism, and Identity (2007)
  • Hear, O Israel! (2009)
  • Notes from a Derelict Culture (2019)
  • Crossing the Jordan: On Judaism, Islam, and the West (2024)

References

  1. ^ "David Solway". Canadian Literature. Archived from the original on 12 January 2025. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
  2. ^ Laurico, MaryAnne (1 September 2010). "Behind the Façades of an Aesopian Duck: The Quest for Authenticity in the Literary Forgeries of David Solway". Studies in Canadian Literature. 35 (1). ISSN 1718-7850.
  3. ^ Neilson, Shane (Spring 2003). "TDR Interview: David Solway". The Danforth Review. Archived from the original on 16 May 2024.
  4. ^ a b c "David Solway: Biography". Canadian Poetry Online. University of Toronto. Archived from the original on 26 June 2023. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  5. ^ a b c d "Solway, David 1941–". encyclopedia.com. Archived from the original on 5 July 2023. Retrieved 5 July 2023.
  6. ^ Teller, Neville (3 March 2024). "'Crossing the Jordan': Deeply considered essays on Judaism, Islam, the West - review". The Jerusalem Post. Archived from the original on 3 March 2024.
  7. ^ "The Islamists' allies in the West". The Times of Israel. 23 November 2015. Archived from the original on 2 November 2016.

Sources

  • New, W. H., ed. The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. p. 1058.
  • Carmine Starnino, ed. David Solway, Essays on His Works (2001)
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