Gary Geddes

“Sandra Lee Scheuer (Killed at Kent State University, May 4, 1970  by the Ohio National Guard)", Al Purdy described the Kent State poem "the kind of poem poets wait a lifetime for."

In addition to writing and editing more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, drama, non-fiction, criticism, translation and anthologies, Geddes has been active in promoting other Canadian writers. He was founding-editor of Studies in Canadian Literature (Copp Clark / McGill-Queens), is the editor of 20th-Century Poetry & Poetics and 15 Canadian Poets Times 3.

Geddes has lectured and performed his work nationally. His work has been translated into Dutch, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and French, broadcast several times on CBC and BBC radio, and performed on stage. He has many national and international awards.

George Woodcock considered Geddes "Canada's best political poet.  His most recent book of poems is Skaldance (Goose Lane Editions).