{"id":496,"date":"2012-06-15T19:35:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.ryerson.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/roy-miki\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T19:05:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T23:05:22","slug":"miki","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/library.torontomu.ca\/asianheritage\/authors\/miki\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy Miki"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Roy Roy Miki was born on a sugar beet farm in Manitoba where his second-generation Japanese Canadian parents were forcibly settled during the Second World War. He has achieved success as a poet, editor, critic and teacher. Miki received a B.A. from the University of Manitoba, a M.A. from Simon Fraser University and a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia. He taught contemporary literature at Simon Fraser University for many years. In July 2006, Miki was named a Member of the Order of Canada<\/a> for his contributions in voluntary service and arts-writing. He is also a member of the Order of British Columbia<\/a>. Miki and his wife Slavia live in Vancouver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


The non-fiction works highlighted on this page represent only a portion of Miki’s prose writing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Flow: New and Collected Poems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edited by Michael Barnholden.
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2019.
PS8576 .I31 A3 2018<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A stunning collection from Governor General\u2019s Award winner Roy Miki, Flow<\/em> presents all of this critically acclaimed writer\u2019s poetry \u2013 from his collections Saving Face<\/em>, Random Access File<\/em>, Surrender<\/em>, There<\/em>, and Mannequin Rising<\/em> \u2013 as well as a substantial chapter of new, previously unpublished works. Including a foreword by poet and critic Louis Cabri, extensive interviews with Miki by the collection\u2019s editor, Michael Barnholden, and an exhaustive bibliography, Flow<\/em> is the definitive edition of Miki\u2019s work. Also included are numerous full-colour photographs and photocollages, a practice Miki has become increasingly drawn to in recent years; in the book\u2019s previously published sections and in the much-anticipated section of brand-new work, Miki\u2019s poems and photographic works engage in a mutually enriching dialogue…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mannequin Rising<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vancouver: New Star Books, 2011.
PS8576 .I32 M28 2011<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In the three sequences of poems and photo-collages that form the heart of this book, the figures of mannequins emerge from local spaces–Kitsilano and Granville Island in Vancouver, Shibuya and Ginza in Tokyo–that are bathed in the ubiquitous affects of commodity culture in our everyday relationships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry (Chapbook)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Market Rinse<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Calgary: DisOrientation Chapbooks, 1993.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Limited ed. of 300 copies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Random Access File<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Red Deer, Alta.: Red Deer College Press, 1995.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Saving Face: Poems Selected 1976-1988<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 1991.
PS8576 .I31 S3 1991<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Roy Miki’s first collection of poems is a brilliant discourse which sounds the originary, unheard of voices of family and community from the perspective of the “sansei” or third-generation Japanese Canadian. These exquisitely balanced poems trace the fragility of ancestral bonds. Diamond-edged, they expose those subtle connections which tie the personal to a collective past scarred by the old wounds of internment and denied identity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Surrender<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Mercury Press, 2001.
PS8576 .I31 S97 2001<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Roy Miki’s brilliant intermixture of the lyrical with the political, the moment with history, the brutal banality of the document with the tender touch of a hand, builds in a tour de force of clarity and beauty. His daring engagements with the provisional, shifting formations of identity and language place him among the most original and powerful of contemporary poets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2002 Governor General’s Literary Award–English Poetry (Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Poetry<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vancouver: New Star Books, 2006.
PS8576 .I31 T44 2006<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Canada, Asia, Europe provide the local conditions where the authorial ‘i’ engages with globalization, with the collision between otherness and spatialization. The serial poems comprising There<\/em> contain a multiplicity of voices drawn from those the poet hears in conversation, advertising, historiography and scientific proceedings, and incorporate photos and photomontages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile, Picture book)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dolphin SOS<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Co-author: Slavia Miki.
Illustrated by Julie Flett.
Vancouver: Tradewind Books, 2014.
PZ7 .M543 D65 2014<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Based on a true events, Dolphin SOS<\/em> recounts the story of three dolphins trapped in an ice-covered cove on the coast of Newfoundland. After the authorities fail to provide assistance, some young people take matters into their own hands in order to save the distressed dolphins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Awards and Honours<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

2015 Christie Harris Illustrated Children’s Literature Prize<\/a> (BC Book Awards)(Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiction (Juvenile, Chapter book)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Peggy’s Impossible Tale<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Co-author: Slavia Miki.
Illustrated by Mariko Ando.
Vancouver: Tradewind Books, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Peggy\u2019s Impossible Tale<\/em> is told in the voice of a remarkable guinea pig. Full of action and surprises, it is guaranteed to captivate the attention of beginning readers. Peggy learns how to communicate with the loving family that adopted her, and goes on to win a much coveted prize for her accomplishments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023 Chocolate Lily Book Award, Chapter book\/Early novel<\/a> (Winner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Non-fiction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Broken Entries: Race, Subjectivity, Writing: Essays<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Toronto: Mercury Press, 1998.
PS8576 .I31 B76 1998<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In these moving, lyrical, and articulate essays, Roy Miki explores the issues and realities that comprise, for him, a writing life: redress, history, memory, “race,” language, displacement–and their interrelationships–as well as the voices of those known and loved whose wisdom rings even after death, Roy Kiyooka and bpNichol.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Non-fiction (Memoir)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Gaman – Perseverance: Japanese Canadians’ Journey to Justice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2023.
FC106.J3 M53 2023<\/a>
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In Flux: Transnational Signs of Asian Canadian Writing <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Edmonton: NeWest Press, 2011.
PS8089.5 .A8 M55 2011<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In this collection of essays \u2026 Roy Miki \u2026 investigates the shifting currents of citizenship, globalization, and cultural practices facing Asian Canadians today through the connections of place and identity that have been forged through our developing national literature.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Justice in Our Time: The Japanese Canadian Redress Settlement.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Co-author: Cassandra Kobayashi.
Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1991.
D768.15 .M53 1991<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Redress: Inside the Japanese Canadian call for Justice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2004
FC106.J3 M55 2004<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher’s Synopsis (From its website)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This passionate and important book\u2014part memoir, part critical examination\u2014explores the Japanese Canadian redress movement of the late 20th century, which sought compensation from the federal government for the internment of citizens of Japanese descent during World War II.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Anthology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

First Chapter: : The Canadian Writers Photography Project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

TR681 .A85 D46 2001<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Denton, Don, and Roy Miki. “Roy Miki.” In Denton, Don. First Chapter: The Canadian Writers Photography Project<\/em>. Banff, AB: Banff Centre Press, 2001, 62-63.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Anthology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Reading Writers Reading: Canadian Authors’ Reflections<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Z1039 .A87 R43 2006<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miki, Roy. “Critical as Creative Reading.” In Reading Writers Reading: Canadian Authors’ Reflections<\/em>. Danielle Schaub, photographer and ed. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2006, 92-93.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Anthology (Prose)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Open TeMiki, Roy. “On Mannequin Rising<\/em>.” In Open Text: Canadian Poetry and Poetics in the 21st Century. Volume 3<\/em>, edited by Roger Farr. (North Vancouver, BC: CUE Books, 2013), 75-78.
PS8293.1 .O64 2008 v.3<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Selected Criticism and Interpretation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Dobson, Kit. “Global subjectivities in Roy Miki’s Surrender.” In Transnational Canadas: Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization<\/em>. Waterloo, Ont.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009, 169-178.
PS8071 .D62 2009<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph, Maia, Christine Kim, Chris Lee and Larissa Lai, eds.  Tracing the Lines: Reflections on Contemporary Poetics and Cultural Politics in Honour of Roy Miki<\/em>.  Vancouver: Talonbooks 2012.
PN1042 .T73 2012<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilson, Sheena L.  “Paradigms Lost and Re-membered: The Case of the Japanese Canadian Experience in Canadian Media, Cinema, and Literature.”  Ph.D. diss., University of Alberta, 2006.
Available from ProQuest Dissertations and Theses<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Publisher Talonbooks<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Publisher Tradewind Books<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roy Miki Fonds<\/a> at Simon Fraser University Library<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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