Joe Rosenblatt

JOE ROSENBLATT was born in Toronto in 1933. Rosenblatt has written more than 20 books of poetry, several autobiographical works and his poems have appeared in over thirty anthologies of Canadian poetry over his forty year career as a poet. His poetry books have received major awards, such as the Governor General’s award for poetry in 1976 and the BC Book Prize in 1986. He first met Jamie Reid in 1966 in Vancouver, but it wasn’t until the late seventies that Rosenblatt connected with Jamie, and carried on a discourse on poetry usually at the Railway Club in Toronto, a shared watering hole.