Is David Zieroth a poet? Does he have a zier-oth-er way with words?

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David Zieroth (born November 7, 1946, in Neepawa, Manitoba)^[1] is a Canadian poet. 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.

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1973: Clearing: Poems from a Journey
1981: Mid-River
1985: When the Stones Fly Up
1991: The Weight of My Raggedy Skin
1998: How I Joined Humanity at Last
2000: The Tangled Bed
2000: Palominos and Other Poems
2001: Crows Do Not Have Retirement
2002: The Education of Mr Whippoorwill: A Country Boyhood
2006: The Village of Sliding Time
2008: Dust in the Brocade
2009: The Fly in Autumn
2009: Berlin Album
2010: Hay Day Canticle
2013: The November Optimist
2014: Albrecht Dürer and me
2015: Zoo and Crowbar
2018: the bridge from day to night
2022: watching for life
2023: the trick of staying and leaving
2024: first here and then far: selected poems 1971−2024

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↑ Zieroth, David Dale. The Canadian Encyclopedia.

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David Zieroth's website, 2026-09-10: http://www.davidzieroth.com/
David Zieroth Archived 2010-09-23 at the Wayback Machine

v t e Winners of the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry
1980s	F. R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott (1981) Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems (1982) David Donnell, Settlements (1983) Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation (1984) Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan (1985) Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (1986) Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds (1987) Erín Moure, Furious (1988) Heather Spears, The Word for Sand (1989)
1990s	Margaret Avison, No Time (1990) Don McKay, Night Field (1991) Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk (1992) Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World (1993) Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room (1994) Anne Szumigalski, Voice (1995) E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996) Dionne Brand, Land to Light On (1997) Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems (1998) Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (1999)
2000s	Don McKay, Another Gravity (2000) George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems (2001) Roy Miki, Surrender (2002) Tim Lilburn, Kill-site (2003) Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (2004) Anne Compton, processional (2005) John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom (2006) Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged (2007) Jacob Scheier, More to Keep Us Warm (2008) David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn (2009)
2010s	Richard Greene, Boxing the Compass (2010) Phil Hall, Killdeer (2011) Julie Bruck, Monkey Ranch (2012) Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs (2013) Arleen Paré, Lake of Two Mountains (2014) Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me (2015) Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late (2016) Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood (2017) Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang (2018) Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild (2019)
2020s	Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2020) Tolu Oloruntoba, The Junta of Happenstance (2021) Annick MacAskill, Shadow Blight (2022) Hannah Green, Xanax Cowboy (2023) Chimwemwe Undi, Scientific Marvel (2024) Karen Solie, Wellwater (2025)

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