| Summary: | Tom Dawe is an award-winning Newfoundland author and visual artist, best known for his poetry. He was born in 1940 in Long Pond, Manuels, Conception Bay. Dawe was a Professor in the English Department at Memorial University until his retirement in 1988. He was a founding editor of the literary magazine, TickleAce , one of the co-founders of the publishing company, Breakwater Books, and an editor of The Livyere folklore journal. He also worked on Scruncheons , a creative writing journal at the University, and helped organize some of the first poetry readings on campus. He is a winner of multiple Provincial Arts and Letters Awards, including a special gold medal for visual arts in 1973; recipient of the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council Arts Achievement Award (1999); Bruneau Award (2008); Canadian Authors' Association Poetry Award (2010), Heritage and History Book Award (2010); The Order of Canada (2011); and The Order of Newfoundland and Labrador (2012); American Folklore Society Aesop Accolade (2018). He was appointed Poet Laureate of the City of St. John's from 2010-2013. Among his books of poetry are: Hemlock Cove and After (1975), In A Small Cove (1978), Island Spell (1981), In Hardy Country (1993), Sea Foam Swings in the Bluebell (2005), Caligula's Horse (2009), Where Genesis Begins (2009), and New and Collected Poems (2019). His children's books include: A Gommil from Bumble Bee Bight (1982), Lings and Things (1986), Winter of the Black Weasel (1988), The Wonderful Dogfish Racket (2013), An Old Man's Winter Night: Ghostly Tales (2015), Spirited Away: Fairy Stories of Old Newfoundland (2017). His poetry has appeared in magazines, journals and anthologies around the world
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