Now available from Harbour Publishing: first here and then far, selected poems, 1971-2024.
A book of poems from McGill-Queen’s University Press, watching for life, was released in November 2022.
Another book, the trick of staying and leaving, was released from Harbour Publishing in March 2023.
first here and then far, selected poems 1971 to 2024, is now in the world, available in bookstores (August 2024) – 192 pages, 96 poems. You can buy a copy directly from Harbour Publishing using the link below that shows the front cover with Daniel Koppersmith’s artwork.
https://harbourpublishing.com/collections/david-zieroth/products/9781990776915
For some ongoing information, please check out David’s Facebook page.
Harbour Publishing published the bridge from day to night in 2018.
“With his characteristic humour, subtlety and ability to find transcendence in the everyday, Zieroth traces the delicate strands connecting the most minute and familiar details to the most profound mysteries, giving voice to the unknowable.”
Here is the link to the text for an email interview. I didn't think I had a lot to say until I started, and then, well...the process felt a little like writing a poem and following the golden thread of ideas and imagination.
http://www.readlocalbc.ca/2018/04/25/poetic-licence-david-zieroth-on-shaping-poetry-and-family-influences/
How do you say... in Slovak? | David Zieroth Poems & interview - Kathryn Para
DAVID ZIEROTH IS A GOVERNOR General’s Award winning poet and memoirist. His writing career began in the 1970s with his first publication, Clearing: Poems from a Journey, which was nominated for a Governor General’s Award. He won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1999 for How I Joined Humanity at Last, and the Governor General’s Award for English language poetry in 2009 for The Fly in Autumn. After a 25-year career as a creative writing instructor at Douglas College, in New Westminster, BC, Zieroth has retired to write full time.
I met David in 1999 at Douglas College. We’ve remained in touch largely through a mutual friend and enjoy comparing our reading lists. Once every summer I look forward to discussing literature with David over a glass of wine on a brick patio overlooking Shoal Channel in Gibsons, BC. He’s broadly read, has an incisive mind, tells traveller’s tales with aplomb and loves to laugh at his own failings.
—Kathryn Para