Monty Reid
Encyclopedia
Life
He graduated from the University of AlbertaUniversity of Alberta
The University of Alberta is a public research university located in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1908 by Alexander Cameron Rutherford, the first premier of Alberta and Henry Marshall Tory, its first president, it is widely recognized as one of the best universities in Canada...
, with an M.A. He lived in Drumheller, Alberta
Drumheller, Alberta
Drumheller is a town within the Red Deer River valley in the badlands of east-central Alberta, Canada. It is located northeast of Calgary...
and worked at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, and has worked at the Canadian Museum of Nature
Canadian Museum of Nature
The Canadian Museum of Nature is a natural history museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Its collections, which were started by the Geological Survey of Canada in 1856, include all aspects of the intersection of human society and nature, from gardening to gene-splicing...
since 1999.
Works
- "five SMALLER dreams", QWERTY, University of New Brunswick
- "Moving the Diorama", Arc 56, Summer 2006
- These Lawns (Red Deer AB: Red Deer College Press, 1990)
- The Alternate Guide (Red Deer College Press, 1995)
Chapbooks
- Cuba A book (Ottawa ON: above/ground press, 2005)
- Sweetheart of Mine (Toronto ON: BookThug, 2006).
Reviews
Twelve powerful meditations in Monty Reid's Flat Side explore the subtle connections between life and words, matter and consciousness, ourselves and the earth and sky. The first poem, "Burning the Back Issues," features the poet experiencing a sense of release as he casts into the fireplace back issues of American Poetry Review to warm his house on New Year's day.
The thing that impressed me the most about Monty Reid's work is the sense of absolute distance that he evokes. With a title like Disappointment Island, this seems laughably obvious, but delving into the opening pages of his first section "Songs for the Mammoth Steppe," a whiff of something truly Romantic comes out at you.