Description: Brian Brett, former chair of the Writers Union of Canada and a journalist for four decades, is best known as a poet, memoir writer, and fictionist. He is the author of twelve books including the poetry collection, The Colour Of Bones In A Stream, and the novel, Coyote: A Mystery. His memoir, Uproar����¯�¿�½���¯���¿���½������¯������¿������½����¯�¿�½���¯���¿���½����¯�¿�½������¢��ï
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Brian Brett , former chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada and a journalist for four decades, is best known as a poet, memoir writer, and fictionist.
He is the author of thirteen books including his memoir, Uproar’s Your Only Music , which was a Globe and Mail Book Of The Year selection. Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life , won numerous prizes, including the Writers’ Trust annual award for non-fiction. To Your Scattered Bodies Go won the CBC poetry prize in 2011. A collection of poems, The Wind River Variations was released in 2014. And the final book in his trilogy of memoirs, Tuco , was published in 2015 and was awarded the Hubert Evans Non-Fic
Brian Brett was the 2016 recipient of the Writers’ Trust Matt Cohen Award for Lifetime Achievement.