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Although I have also been a journalist and a prose writer, as a poet, which is my true vocation, my sense was that poets, while feeling a strong alliance with other poets, also need to join the general community of writers. The Writers’ Union of Canada has given me this support.
Member Profile
Phil Hall
Phil Hall was raised on farms in the Kawarthas region of Ontario. He attended the University of Windsor. He has taught writing at York University, Ryerson Polytechnical University, Sage Hill Writing Experience, The Toronto New School, and the Banff Centre for the Arts. He has been writer-in-residence at the Berton House in Dawson City, Queen's University, the University of Windsor, and (in fall 2014) the University of Ottawa. For Killdeer (2011) Hall won both the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Prize. He has twice been nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize. He is married to Ann Silversides, also a TWUC member, & they live near Perth, Ontario.
