Two Songs

Russell Thornton is a Canadian poet with nine previously published collections. Birds, Metals, Stones & Rain (2013) was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, the Raymond Souster Award, and the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. The Hundred Lives (2014) was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. His other titles are The Fifth Window (2000), A Tunisian Notebook (2002), House Built of Rain (2003), shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize and the ReLit Award for poetry, The Human Shore (2006), The Broken Face (2018), Answer to Blue (2021), and The White Light of Tomorrow (2023). Thornton’s poetry has been included in many anthologies, among them the Best Canadian Poetry series (2012 and 2019), and has been selected several times for BC’s Poetry in Transit; it has also appeared in translation in anthologies and literary journals in Greece, Romania, and Israel. He lives in North Vancouver, BC.