David Groulx
David Groulx was raised in the Northern Ontario mining community of Elliot Lake. He is proud of his Native roots – his mother is Ojibwe Indian and his father French Canadian. David received his BA from the Lakehead University where he won the Munro Poetry Prize. He also studied creative writing at the En’owkin Centre in Penticton, B.C. where he won the Simon J. Lucas Jr. Memorial Award for poetry. David has written nine poetry books including Night in the Exude (Tyro Publications), The Long Dance (Kegedonce Press), Under God’s Pale Bones (Kegedonce Press), A Difficult Beauty (Wolsak & Wynn), Rising With a Distant Dawn (BookLand Press) in English and Ojibwa, Imagine Mercy (BookLand Press), and The Windigo Chronicles (BookLand Press).
Books by David Groulx
Reviews
"This poetry book gives an Aboriginal perspective on a state of Canada, modern society, and the injustice to Aboriginal peoples."
~ ABORIGINAL PEOPLES TELEVISION NETWORK
"Groulx hits as hard as the concrete of his sidewalks with words wise and heart-breaking, loving and hopeful, moving from the cities to the bush, from the Prairies to the mountains."
~ PRAIRIE BOOKS NOW
“Bi-Gishkoziitwin Biidaanzhed Biidaabang and Rising with a Distant Dawn mark an important shift in linguistic and poetic diversity. Any readers of American Indian and Aboriginal literature should find in the English poems a gesture toward postcolonial times and, in the Anishinaabe version of each poem, a compelling invitation to learn a language alive with ever-shifting compound verbs and descriptions of people and places centered in networks of relationships.”
~ STUDIES IN AMERICAN INDIAN LITERATURES
“David Groulx has come a long way from daydreaming as a child in Elliot Lake about a future career writing poetry. His childhood ambition has turned into success with age.”
~ THE STANDARD
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