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Sue MacLeod's poetry collections are The Singing You Hear at the Edges and The Language of Rain. She has been shortlisted for the Milton Acorn People's Poet award, won Arc's Poem of the Year prize, and was Halifax's inaugural Poet Laureate from 2001 to 2005. In 2006 she was shortlisted for the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia's Masterworks Arts Award for editing To Find Us: Words and Images of Halifax, featuring work by more than 60 writers and photographers.
Sue was born in Ontario and has recently moved back there - to Toronto - after living in Halifax for 40 years. She visits relatives in Ingonish, Cape Breton, every summer. Sue has worked in public libraries, taught poetry at Dalhousie, and been a freelance writer. At present, she is taking photography courses, writing poems, and completing a young adult novel.
- That Singing You Hear at the Edges. Signature Editions, 2003. ISBN 0-921833-90-3.
- "MacLeod is capable of a delicate virtuosity [...] this is poetry we need more of. It is emotional without being maudlin; rejoicing in the particular pleasures of the language, yet it remembers language's human core." - The Malahat Review, 2004.
- The Language of Rain. Roseway Publishing, 1995. ISBN 1-896496-00-8.
- "The Language of Rain is a cherishable, necessary book, one fit to tote everywhere and quote to all and sundry." - George Elliott Clarke
- "[S]heer wit and exuberance" - Sandra Nicholls, Vintage 94
- "A forceful, clear-eyed view of the stumbles of relationships, identity, and interpersonal power [...] the familiar, comforting twang of a hurtin' country song (if country singers had post-grad degrees)." - Richard Vaughan, The Fiddlehead
- Sue MacLeod's poetry has appeared in many Canadian literary magazines including The Antigonish Review, Arc, CV2, Event, The Fiddlehead, Fireweed, The Gaspereau Review, Grain, The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, Other Voices, The Pottersfield Portfolio, PRISM international, Room of One's Own and TickleAce. Her work has also appeared in anthologies including Body Language (Black Mass Press, 2003); Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada (Goose Lane Editions, 2002); Landmarks: An Anthology of New Atlantic Canadian Poetry of the Land (Acorn Press, 2001); Vintage 2000 (Ronsdale Press, 2000); Rip-Rap: Fiction and Poetry from the Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff Centre Press, 1999); and Words Out There: Women Poets in Atlantic Canada (Roseway Publishing, 1999).
