Richard Stevenson is a Canadian poet, born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1952, he now lives in Lethbridge, Alberta.
Works:
- Drving Offensively - 1985
- Suiting Up - Third Eye Press 1986
- Whatever it is Plants Dream... - 1990
- Learning to Breathe - 1992
- From the Mouths of Angels - 1993
- Why Were All the Angels Men - 1994
- Wiser Pills HMS Press Books on Disk 1996
- A Murder of Crows: New & Selected Poems (Black Moss Press, 1998)
- Nothing Definite Yeti (Ekstasis Editions, 1999)
- Live-Evil: A Homage To Miles Davis (Thistledown Press, 2000)
- Hot Flashes: Maiduguri Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka (Ekstasis Editions, 2001)
- Take Me To Your Leader! (Bayeux Arts. Inc., 2003)
- A Charm of Finches (Ekstasis Editions, 2004)
- Parrot With Tourette’s (Black Moss Press, Palm Poets Series, 2004)
- Alex Anklebone & Andy The Dog (picture book, Bayeux Arts Inc., 2005)
- Flicker at the Fascia (Serengeti Press, 2005)
- Tempus Fugit (Laurel Reed Books, 2005)
- Riding on a Magpie Riff (memoir, Black Moss press, 2006)
- Tidings of Magpies: Haiku, Senryu, and Tanka (Spotted Cow Press, 2006)
- Wiser Pills (revised edition, Frontenac House, 2008)
- The Emerald Hour (Ekstasis Editions, 2008)
Famous quotes containing the words richard and/or stevenson:
“Stay on the beach. The natives over there are cannibals. They eat liars with the same enthusiasm as they eat honest men.”
—Earl Felton, and Richard Fleischer. Captain Nemo (James Mason)
“Stevenson had noble ideas—as did the young Franklin for that matter. But Stevenson felt that the way to implement them was to present himself as a thoughtful idealist and wait for the world to flock to him. He considered it below him, or wrong, to scramble out among the people and ask them what they wanted. Roosevelt grappled voters to him. Stevenson shied off from them. Some thought him too pure to desire power, though he showed ambition when it mattered.”
—Garry Wills, U.S. historian. Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders, ch. 9, Simon & Schuster (1994)