Diane Keating

Diane Keating
Occupation poet, novelist
Nationality Canadian
Period 1970s-present
Notable works No Birds or Flowers

Diane Keating is a Canadian writer.[1] She is most noted for her poetry collection No Birds or Flowers, which was a shortlisted nominee for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 1982 Governor General's Awards.[2] She published two further poetry collections in the 1980s,[3] as well as the career anthology The Year One: New and Selected Poems in 2001.[4]

In 1989, her short story "The Crying Out" was published in the Journey Prize anthology,[5] and in 1991, she was a Journey Prize finalist for her short story "The Salem Letters".[6] Both stories were excerpts from a novel in progress, which was originally slated for publication in 1992[7] but was withdrawn at that time and was not published until 2014.[8]

Works

References

  1. "Bantering bards revel in each other's differences". Vancouver Sun, April 10, 1992.
  2. "Finalists declared in literary awards". The Globe and Mail, May 25, 1983.
  3. "Poetry for eyes and ears". The Globe and Mail, August 17, 1985.
  4. "Good Reasons to Publish Selected Poems". Books in Canada.
  5. "Anthology has Canada's best". Calgary Herald, August 26, 1989.
  6. "Prize finalists named". Halifax Daily News, September 1, 1991.
  7. "Publishers unleash bumper book crop". Toronto Star, February 22, 1992.
  8. "Connection to Salem burdened by gloom". Winnipeg Free Press, January 17, 2015.


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