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Blaine Marchand

Blaine Marchand lives on the unceded territory of the Algonquin – Anishinaabe people, known as the Ottawa Valley. His poetry and prose has appeared in Canada, the US, New Zealand, Pakistan, India, France and Ukraine. Some of this poems have been translated into French and Ukrainian. He has seven books of poetry published, a chapbook, a young adult novel and a work of non-fiction. He has won several prizes for his writing, including 2nd Prize in the 1990 National Poetry Contest and the Archibald Lampman Award for Poetry for his book A Garden Enclosed. Aperture and The Craving of Knives, were short-listed for the Archibald Lampman Award in 2009 and 2010 and were on the Relit Awards long-list. Active in the literary scene in Ottawa for over 50 years, he was a co-founder of the Canadian Review, Sparks magazine, the Ottawa Independent Writers and the Ottawa Valley Book Festival. He is currently co-chair of the 83-member Senior Poets Caucus in the League of Canadian Poets. He was President of the League from 1992-94 and has served in several capacities with the association over the decades. He was also a monthly columnist for Capital XTRA, the Ottawa 2SLGBTQ+ community paper, for nine years. He has completed a manuscript for his eighth book of poetry, Promenade, and is at work on his next, tentatively entitled, In Response.

	The Syntax of Sleep published in Bywords.ca February 2026
	Imaging the Body published in Bywords.ca November 2021
	Sawing Wood published in Bywords.ca December 2018
	Why I Fear Writing published in Bywords.ca December 2015