MEET THE AUTHOR
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Born in Calgary, Alberta, on Treaty Seven lands, Bruce was deafened as an infant and afflicted with low vision much of his adult life. After high school, he worked as a labourer, equipment operator, Zamboni driver, and completed his technical education as a gardener and arborist. In his late twenties, his poetry earned him a scholarship to the Banff School of Fine Arts to study with novelist W.O. Mitchell and poet Irving Layton. He went on to York University to study the humanities and taught in the creative writing department before landing a position at Seneca College. He is an active writer, editor, speaker and mentor.
BOOKS IN PRINT
COMING EVENTS
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MAY 23, 2025
BOOK LAUNCH: IN THE BEAR'S HOUSE
With: Frontenac House Ltd.
Location: C Space / Treehouse Room
1721-29 Ave SW
Calgary, Alberta
Time: 6-9:00 PM
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OCTOBER 23, 2025
SINGLE ONION READING SERIES
With: Bruce Hunter, Lorne Daniel, Micheline Maylor-Kovitz, and others
Location: Calgary, Alberta
Venue: Single Onion
RECENT HIGHLIGHTS
SARA BINI READS C'È UNA STRADA - THERE IS A ROAD (by Bruce Hunter)
Bruce read with Sara Bini April 3, 2025 in Florence. Bruce was absolutely honoured by her marvellous Italian/English reading of his poem "There is a Rose" from Galestro. Grazie Mille, amica cara, poetessa. A presto, Sara.
Sandro Pecchiari and Giovanni Fierro interview Bruce Hunter for Fare Voci
In January, 2025 Bruce was interviewed for Fare Voci magazine about his presence in Italy. “I fell in love with her in sixth grade and my mind and heart were captured forever after my first visit in 2012, one week after I retired. It opened a whole new phase in my life as I say here. Grazie, caro amici.”
RECENT REVIEWS
ARTICOLO DI SARA CABITTA
NELLA CASA DELL'ORSO
William Dunlop nasce alle 5:29, a metà della terza settimana di maggio del 1952 presso il Policlinico di Calgary. Sua madre Clare è rimasta incinta a diciassette anni e aspettava Will da due mesi quando lei e Lowell si sono sposati, il novembre dell’anno prima. Ora è sola con il bambino, suo marito deve scontare due anni in carcere per aggressione. C’è stato un momento in cui ha pensato al divorzio, un’idea subito abbandonata, che potrebbe fare da sola con un bimbo piccolo? Ha conosciuto Lowell a quattordici anni, quando i suoi voti a scuola le permettevano di fare progetti per una borsa di studio e l’università. Non immaginava che quell’incontro al Caffè Lido a Sunnyside portasse a questo. Lowell era spavaldo, aveva due anni più di lei, indossava un completo Zoot e guidava una macchina truccata.
"Galestro"
- Giovanni Fierro, Fare Voci (Italy)
The poetry of Bruce Hunter, a Canadian author who in his book "Galestro" explores nature and childhood, pays homage to jazz, finds closeness and belonging to his native Canada and also to his beloved Tuscany, moves with a broad and deep breath. But not only that, his writing builds a spirituality where bonds, of love and friendship but not only, permeate his every word, every poem.
“Sleepless and dreamers, all of us, / afloat in the fresh blue bubbles of his hot jazz / which illuminated the black silk sky / where I courted my young love, / and I mentioned a couple of dance steps under the lamps, / all the possibilities of the road and of faith”, and it is already a sound that welcomes the reader, a listening that becomes dance, movement of soul and body, possibility of discovery and self-definition.
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