Rhenisch, Harold

Harold Rhenisch has published over a dozen collections of poetry, including Taking the Breath Away (Ronsdale, 1998) and Return to Open Water: Poems New & Selected (Ronsdale, 2007); a novel, Carnival, about a boy coming of age in wartime Germany; and several books of bio-regional essays. His nonfiction book Tom Thomson’s Shack (New Star Books, 2000) was nominated for two BC Book Prizes. He also received the ARC 2003 Poem of the Year award.

He studied drama and writing in Victoria, farmed in the Okanagan, and has represented Canadian poetry in England. He lives in 150 Mile House, B.C.