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	PoetryReviews.ca » Headframe: 2 by Birk Sproxton
		Moving through story and storytelling, history and his own geographies, I would like to see what he did with the first volume, to see where it all began; I like the loose feel of how connected these poems fit together, becoming accumulatively tighter as you move through the text.
		Sproxton’s continued and continuing poem writes history and fathers, writes family reunions and what has happened in the wake between years, as well as stories ranging from fact to tall tales and everything in between.
		What is interesting in Sproxton’s writing is the amount of serious play; the movements that have become so familiar in prairie poetry over the years, and how Sproxton adds to the conversation of play through his own variants.
	poetryreviews.ca /2006/10/26/headframe-2-by-birk-sproxton (1004 words)

	Amazon.ca: Phantom Lake: North of 54: Books: Birk Sproxton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		No one illustrates that better than Birk Sproxton, whose latest book, Phantom Lake: North of 54, stars an unnamed narrator who can’t resist delving into the rich past of the Flin Flon region….’It’s based on true stories, but then I take license with some of them,’ he says.
		Birk Sproxton traverses the high latitudes of Manitoba and Saskatchewan in a quest for the mystery of Flin Flon and in a search for himself.
		Sproxton tells of the first gold rush, the draining of Flin Flon Lake, the emergence of the open pit, smelter smoke and slag pour, headframes, and tailings ponds.
	www.amazon.ca /Phantom-Lake-North-Birk-Sproxton/dp/0888644426 (1147 words)

	Prairie Fire Magazine: Review of Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sproxton suggests that Rice used this personal experience of the frostbow as a pattern, a template, to understand the origins of the aurora borealis.
		Although Sproxton refrains from extracting the "Au" (gold) from this aurora, he has found a perfect specimen to illustrate one of the themes of this book--the inadequacy of an imported language to learn to know a new landscape.
		Sproxton revisits Kate Rice in Chapter 13, "Grassy River and Dreams of Gold." "She could walk through the bush looking for the motherlode or reading the sky to seek the borealis.
	www.prairiefire.ca /reviews/sproxton_phantom.html (794 words)

	The Antigonish Review: Christian Riegel interviews Birk Sproxton
		Birk Sproxton is a writer and editor based in Red Deer, Alberta, where he teaches Canadian Literature and creative writing at Red Deer College.
		I was first drawn to Sproxton's work because he writes about things others seem not to address: the north, mining, work, rocks, the vernacular, the body, obscure history.
		He is thought of as a prairie writer and yet all his books are about the Precambrian Shield, a landscape that comprises a large part of Manitoba (far larger than the prairie so commonly associated with that province).
	www.antigonishreview.com /bi-132/132-interview-christian-riegel.html (4067 words)

	Vue Weekly : Articles
		When Sproxton grew up in Flin Flon in the 1950s, the town was still a kind of northern island; the region’s labyrinthine topography of lakes and rock marked by the trending of retreating glaciers seeped into Sproxton’s bones, and he has returned most years to a family cabin on Phantom Lake.
		Sproxton describes in fascinating detail such things as the tough work he performed at the mine and in the bush drilling geological samples.
		As Sproxton writes: “We knew we had stories—we heard them at home and on the streets and in the rinks—but we lacked knowledge of the literary antecedents in which to set them.
	www.vueweekly.com /articles/default.aspx?i=3086 (770 words)

	Bookninja » Blog Archive » Birk Sproxton wins MacEwan Author’s Award
		Alberta author Birk Sproxton has won the $25,000 MacEwan Author’s Award for his memoir and short fiction collection Phantom Lake: North of 54.
		Sproxton, based in Red Deer, was among the winners of 16 awards for writing and publishing who were honoured Saturday at the Alberta Book Awards gala.
		Birk, if you are ever in town, look us up; we want to take you out and introduce you around just so we can roll your lovely name around our mouth.
	www.bookninja.com /?p=871 (269 words)

	Prairie Harvest
		While some Canadians view the eastern part of Canada as the country's cultural heart, Birk Sproxton is helping show the literary achievements of the Prairies to the rest of the nation.
		Sproxton is the editor of Great Stories from the Prairies, a collection of twenty-five short stories spanning the last century of Prairie writing, including pieces from the legendary writers W.O. Mitchell and Margaret Laurence, to more contemporary names in Prairie literature like Carol Shields and Greg Hollingshead.
		Sproxton, who teaches creative writing and Canadian Literature at Red Deer College, decided to embark upon the project in an effort to document Prairie literature from the past hundred years.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/canadian_literature/82780 (498 words)

	Prairie Fire Magazine: Review of Books
		Birk: About that; my usual line is that I was born with my skates on.
		Birk: That's right, two novels precede the town, so they are the pre-texts of the town.
		Birk: The other important thing about setting is that a particular locale will often develop its own vocabulary.
	www.prairiefire.ca /interview_banting_sproxton.html (5152 words)

	THE GOOSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Sproxton blends the fictional and historical past of Flin Flon with his childhood memories and contemporary visits so seamlessly that a map might hinder the confluence of past and present in this memoir.
		Sproxton’s essays provide vivid depictions of the environmental consequences of mining—a lake drained and converted to a tailings pond, others polluted with mercury, and a town where weather predictions can be based on glances towards the ever-present stream of smelter smoke.
		Yet Sproxton complicates these details by portraying families reliant on the mining industry for their livelihoods, in a place where one of the only alternatives to work in the mines is to leave one’s home and seek opportunity elsewhere.
	individual.utoronto.ca /esjones/reviews.htm (2014 words)

	http://www.rdc.ab.ca/ \| Red Deer College - News & Events
		Birk Sproxton cashed in on his recent literary work as the winner of the Grant MacEwan Author’s Award at last Saturday’s 2006 Alberta Book Awards Gala in Calgary.
		The University of Alberta Press, publisher of Phantom Lake, is no stranger to major publishing awards as numerous other authors who’ve worked with UAP have been nominated for awards this year.
		Sproxton also received the Manitoba Historical Society award for Local History award for Phantom Lake.
	www.rdc.ab.ca /news_events/?2006-05-17-15-53-30.html (253 words)

	Red Deer College \| Library Information Common \| Birk Sproxton launches Phantom Lake, his new book of memoirs\|
		Birk Sproxton launches Phantom Lake, his new book of memoirs
		Birk Sproxton, Red Deer College English instructor and local author, will launch his latest book, Phantom Lake: North of 54, at Red Deer College Library, on Tuesday, November 8.
		Sproxton traverses the high latitudes of Manitoba and Saskatchewan in a quest for the mystery of Flin Flon and in a search for himself.
	library.rdc.ab.ca /news_events/phantom_lake.html (160 words)

	Buy.com - Phantom Lake: North of 54 : Birk Sproxton : ISBN 9780888644428
		Birk Sproxton traverses the high latitudes of Manitoba and Saskatchewan in a quest for the mystery of Flin Flon and a search for himself.
		Sproxton tells of the first gold rush, the draining of Flin Flon Lake, the emergence of the open pit, smelter smoke and slag pour, headframes, and tailings ponds.
		At the center of this fictional and historical mosaic lies the elusive Phantom Lake.
	www.buy.com /prod/phantom-lake-north-of-54/q/loc/106/31283937.html (287 words)

	http://www.rdc.ab.ca/ \| Red Deer College - News & Events
		The book has been nominated for the Manitoba Historical Society Margaret McWilliams Award, Local History category and is also one of the four finalists selected for the sixth annual Grant MacEwan Author’s Award.
		Phantom Lake: North of 54 is a memoir of family adventures and summer at the lake, says Sproxton, an English instructor at Red Deer College.
		Sproxton has also written The Red-Headed Woman with the Black Black Heart and Headframe, The Hockey Fan Came Riding.
	www.rdc.ab.ca /news_events/?2006-04-21-14-30-00.html (327 words)

	Birk Sproxton, Contributor - Banff Centre Press
		Born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Birk Sproxton now writes and edits in Red Deer, Alberta.
		He is the author of Headframe: (Turnstone Press 1985), a long poem, and editor of Trace: Prairie Writers on Writing (Turnstone Press 1997) and Great Stories from the Prairies (Red Deer Press 2000).
		Sproxton is the founding editor of an online magazine called "Taking Place: Canadian Prairie Writing."
	www.banffcentre.ca /press/contributors/stu/sproxton_b (90 words)

	PSS2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Representatives from the Canadian Embassy will be among our guests that night, when we listen to the works of Birk Sproxton and Ian Ross, two writers from Western Canada.
		Birk presents scenes of his novel "The Red Headed Woman with the Black, Black Heart".
		Birk Sproxton: The Red-Headed Woman with the Black Black Heart
	www.pss2005.com /table.php (1257 words)

	Welcome to the University of Alberta Press
		That may explain why Sproxton was presented the $25 000 Grant MacEwan Author’s Award last weekend.”
		Phantom Lake can be described as a vivid trip back to an era of fur trading, wide-eyed prospectors, open pit mines and industrial smoke so strong it ‘ripped our throats.’Birk Sproxton is only too happy to take readers along on his journey of self discovery.”
		He illustrates how the literature about a place itself becomes a part of the place, influencing the local people's perception of their home.”
	www.uap.ualberta.ca /UAP.asp?lid=41&bookid=599 (1179 words)

	University of Manitoba: Canadian Literature Archive - Bibliographies
		Calgary: Red Deer Press, 2000. Edited and with an Introduction by Birk Sproxton.
		“Retracing Prairie Voices: A Conversation with Birk Sproxton,” by Martin Kuester, Prairie Fire. Summer 1987.
		“Flin Flon inspired poet Sproxton to write his ‘long poem,’” by Adrian Chamberlin, Winnipeg Free Press, 29 May 1986.
	www.umanitoba.ca /canlit/birk_sproxton.html (904 words)

	Birk Sproxton, Contributor - Banff Centre Press
		Born in Flin Flon, Manitoba, Birk Sproxton now writes and edits in Red Deer, Alberta.
		He is the author of Headframe: (Turnstone Press 1985), a long poem, and editor of Trace: Prairie Writers on Writing (Turnstone Press 1997) and Great Stories from the Prairies (Red Deer Press 2000).
		Sproxton is the founding editor of an online magazine called "Taking Place: Canadian Prairie Writing."
	www.banffcentre.com /press/contributors/stu/sproxton_b (90 words)

	Gordon Trick: ZoomInfo Business People Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Two of the participants in the creation of the suite of poem prints, Birk Sproxton and Gordon Trick, will discuss the creative process of the development of the prints and accompanying portfolio, as well as read a selection of poetry, presenting for public showing the intaglio prints incorporating the texts.
		Gordon Trick was born and raised in Manitoba.
		Birk Sproxton lives and teaches in Red Deer, writing from the park belt of Central Alberta.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Trick_Gordon_552409807.htm (257 words)

	Michigan State University Press : Birk Sproxton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Birk Sproxton currently lives in the heart of the Alberta greenbelt, where he teaches Canadian Literature and Creative Writing at Red Deer College.
		Editor of the best-selling Great Stories from the Prairies, he is the author of Headframe, The Hockey Fan Came Riding, and the award-winning novel, The Red-Headed Woman with the Black Black Heart.
		Available from Michigan State University Press, by Birk Sproxton:
	msupress.msu.edu /authorbio.php?authorID=2181 (64 words)

	buch.de - Birk Sproxton - bücher - musik - dvd's - cd's - software - video - spiele - blumen
		Die Suche nach "Birk Sproxton" führte zu insgesamt 3 Treffern.
		Red Headed Woman with the Black Black Heart von Birk Sproxton
		Phantom Lake: North of 54 von Birk Sproxton
	www.buch.de /buch/autor/birk_sproxton.html (59 words)

	Original LC List Files (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		by Jim Scott, Peter Slade & Birk Sproxton).
		The proceedings of the Leonard Cohen Conference, Red Deer College, October 22-24, 1993.
		108-121; Birk Sproxton, Reading Leonard Cohen: Reprise, pp.
	home.comcast.net /~g_m/LC-ng-90-95/1353.htm (250 words)

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