Christopher Dewdney

Christopher Dewdney is the author of four books of non-fiction as well as eleven books of poetry. Last year, he won the Harbourfront Festival Prize. A four-time nominee for the Governor General's Award he won first-prize in the CBC Literary Competition for poetry. In 2005 his book, Acquainted With The Night; Excursions into the World After Dark was nominated for both a Governor General's Award and The Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction, and was published in seven countries. Dewdney lives in Toronto, where he teaches writing at York University.

This spring HarperCollins published Dewdney's newest non-fiction title, Soul of The World; Unlocking the Secrets of Time. The book deals with time in all of its multi-faceted aspects, from physical properties to metaphysical dimensions. This fascinating and teasingly mind-altering meditation is divided into three parts -- present, past and future -- in which he devotes as many words to culture as he does to mythology, literature and science. In April the Vancouver sun claimed that "Soul of the World demonstrates how poets can help us rediscover the wonders that lie hidden within the sciences. It proves that we can sometimes slip through the locked doors that block off the deeper mysteries, using metaphor and the imagination as our keys." Dewdney's public appearances are invariably punctuated by an entertaining series of impromptu anecdotes, musings and surprising factoids.

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