![]() ![]() This sparked his interest in publishing a poetry collection, which he did in 1996 with Arguments with Gravity (Quarry Press). In 1994, Crummey was awarded the Bronwen Wallace Award for Poetry, a national prize for writers under age 35 who had not yet been published in book form. Power Poetry Contest at Memorial University, and subsequently published his first work in TickleAce, a literary magazine based in of St. Since his return from China, he has worked a myriad of jobs: an institutional counselor with the John Howard Society, a cook and bottle washer for the International Day of Solidarity With the People of Guatemala, and with the Ontario Public Interest Research Group in Kingston. program in 1989.Ĭrummey briefly lived in China as an ESL teacher in 1991, moved back to Kingston, and then to St. Later, he relocated to Kingston, Ontario, doing graduate work at Queen’s University however, he dropped out of the Ph. Crummey lived in Buchans and Wabush, NL prior to attending Memorial University where he obtained a BA in English in 1987. His work often includes a focus on the past and is enriched with the history of that province. ![]() Michael Crummey was born in Buchans, a mining town in Newfoundland. ![]()
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