Born in Oberammergau in 1947, Norm Sibum grew up in Germany, Alaska, Missouri, Utah, and Washington. He has been a Montréaler since 1994. Along with Bruce Serafin, he founded the Vancouver Review in 1989 and published several collections of poetry in Canada and in England with Carcanet Press. His Girls and Handsome Dogs ( Porcupine’s Quill, 2002) won the Quebec Writer’s Federation A.M. Klein Award for Poetry. “The Pangborn Defence” (Biblioasis, 2008) was short-listed for the same award.

Published Books

SUB DIVO      Biblioasis Press, Ontario, Canada, 2012

SUB DIVO      Biblioasis 2011 (poetry chapbook)

WILLIAM HOFFER AND THE THEOLOGY OF SNOOKER   
                       Des Antipodes 2011(prose chapbook)

SMOKE AND LILACS   Carcanet Press (Manchester, U.K.) 2009
                 (also available through Biblioasis Press, Canada)

THE PANGBORN DEFENCE Biblioasis 2008

INTIMATIONS OF A REALM IN JEOPARDY
                 The Porcupines’s Quill 2004

GIRLS AND HANDSOME DOGS The Porcupine’s Quill, 2002

THE NOVEMBER PROPERTIUS Carcanet Press, 1998

CD POETS 2 Bellew Publishing (London), (book with CD) 1995

SEPTIMIUS FELTON Red Dog Accounts, 1994

THE APOSTLE’S SECRETARY Enitharmon (London) 1993

IN LABAN’S FIELD Carcanet Press 1993

NARRATIVES AND CONTINUATIONS Oberon, 1990

CAFÉ POEMS Oberon, 1988

EIGHT POEMS William Hoffer/Tanks, 1987

TEN POEMS William Hoffer, 1985

AMONG OTHER HOWLS IN THE STORM Pulp Press, 1982  

BEGGARS Standard Editions, 1981

LOYAL AND UNHOLY HOURS Harbour Publishing, 1980

SMALL COMMERCE Caitlin Press, 1978

BANJO The College of New Caledonia Writing Series, 1972