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Tom Wayman

Author of Did I Miss Anything?: Selected Poems 1973-1993

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About the Author

Tom Wayman currently teaches at the University of Calgary

Includes the names: Tom Wayman, ed, Tom: Editor Wayman

Works by Tom Wayman

Did I Miss Anything?: Selected Poems 1973-1993 (1993) 13 copies
Going for Coffee: Poetry on the Job (1981) 11 copies
Paperwork: An Anthology (1991) 10 copies
Dirty Snow (2012) 7 copies
Inside Job: Essays on the New Work Writing (1983) 6 copies
The Order in Which We Do Things: The Poetry of Tom Wayman (Laurier Poetry) (2014) 6 copies
A Country Not Considered: Canada, Culture, Work (1993) 6 copies
In a Small House on the Outskirts of Heaven (1989) 6 copies
The Face of Jack Munro (1986) 6 copies
Introducing Tom Wayman: Selected poems, 1973-80 (Ontario Review Press poetry series) (1980) 5 copies, 1 review
Free time: Industrial poems (1977) 5 copies
The Astonishing Weight of the Dead (1994) 5 copies
Watching a Man Break a Dog’s Back: Poems for a Dark Time (2020) 4 copies, 1 review
For and against the moon: Blues, yells, and chuckles (1974) 4 copies
I'll Be Right Back: New and Selected Poems 1980-1996 (1997) 4 copies
The Dominion of Love: An Anthology of Canadian Love Poems (2001) 4 copies
My Father's Cup (2002) 4 copies
Waiting for Wayman (1973) 4 copies
The shadows we mistake for love : stories (2015) 4 copies
Built to Take It: Selected Poems, 1996-2013 (Northwest Masters) (2014) 4 copies
Money and rain: Tom Wayman live! (1975) 4 copies
Planet Mostly Sea (1979) 4 copies
A Government Job at Last: An Anthology of Working Poems, Mainly Canadian 3 copies
A Government Job at Last - an Anthology of Working Poems, Mainly Canadian (1975) 3 copies
Woodstock Rising (2009) 3 copies
The Colours of the Forest: Poems (1999) 3 copies
The Road to Appledore: Or How I Went Back to the Land Without Ever Having Lived There in the First Place (2024) 3 copies
High Speed Through Shoaling Water (2007) 2 copies
Boundary country (2007) 2 copies
The Nobel Prize acceptance speech : new and selected Wayman poems (1981) 2 copies
Living on the Ground: Tom Wayman Country (1980) 2 copies
Country not considered, A 1 copy
Beaton Abbot's got the contract : an anthology of working poems 1 copy
Counting the Hours: City Poems (1983) 1 copy
If You're Not Free at Work, Where Are You Free: Literature and Social Change (Essential Essays) (2018) 1 copy
Helpless Angels: a book of music (2017) 1 copy
Beaton Abbot's Got the Contract: An Anthology of Working Poems 1 copy
Picketing Supermarkets (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 copy
Wayman in Love (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 copy
Out of the ordinary : new poems (2025) 1 copy
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Associated Works

Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry (2003) — Contributor — 855 copies, 10 reviews
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day (2005) — Contributor — 405 copies, 9 reviews
For Neruda, For Chile: An International Anthology (1975) — Contributor — 28 copies
Eating the pure light : homage to Thomas McGrath (2009) — Contributor — 4 copies, 1 review

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JoeCottonwood83 reviews
Introducing Tom Wayman: Selected poems, 1973-80 (Ontario Review Press poetry series) by Tom Wayman
Down to earth poems about gritty people doing real work - in construction, in a factory, on a farm. These poems have dirt under the fingernails and eyes that look to the horizon.
Apr 1, 2013
ltbxf419 reviews
Watching a Man Break a Dog’s Back: Poems for a Dark Time by Tom Wayman
Very much enjoyed my first foray into Wayman's poetry.
Jan 13, 2021

Awards

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BC and Yukon Book Prizes
Danuta Gleed Literary Award
The Seaboard Review's Picks for Best Reads of the Year
Canadian Authors Association Award
Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry

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