WORKS

POETRY

News and Smoke: Selected Poems. Talon Books, 1999.

Artemis Hates Romance. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1980.

Holding the Pose. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1983.

Confabulations: Poems for Malcolm Lowry. Lantzville: Oolichan Books, 1984.

Radio New France Radio. Vancouver: Slug Press, 1982.

The Beginning of the Long Dash. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1987.

The Pangs of Sunday: Poems. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1990.

Aurora. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1995.

OTHER WORKS

Thesen, Sharon, ed. Selected Poems: The Vision Tree, by Phyllis Webb. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1982.
CRITICISM

Banting, Pamela. “Tremendous Forgeries, Confabulations and Graphologies Elliptical: The Lyric/ Anti-Lyric Poetry of Sharon Thesen and Elizabeth Smither.” Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 6 (1991): 112-134.

Barbour, Douglas. “Writing Through the Margins: Sharon Thesen’s and Bill Manhire’s Apparently Lyrical Poetry.” Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 4 (1990): 72-87.

Boughn, Michael. Rev. of Aurora, by Sharon Thesen. University of Toronto Quarterly 66.1 (1996/1997): 245-254.

Crawley, Dennis. Rev. of News & Smoke, by Sharon Thesen. Quill & Quire 66.2 (2000): 42.

Dorscht, Susan Rudy. Rev. of The Pangs of Sunday, by Sharon Thesen. Essays on Canadian Writing (1992): 48.

Dunham, Rob. “Knots of Energy: The Contest of Discourses in Sharon Thesen’s Poetry.” Sagetrieb 7.1 (1988): 142-163.

Rooke, Constance. “Getting into Heaven: An Interview with Diana Hartog, Paulette Jiles, and Sharon Thesen.” Malahat Review 83 (1988): 5-52.

Scherf, Kathleen. “Confabulations: A Conversation with Sharon Thesen.” The Malcolm Lowry Review 21/22 (1987/88): 121-129.

Scobie, Steven. “The Barren Reach of Modern Desire: Intertextuality in Sharon Thesen’s The Beginning of the Long Dash.” Malahat Review 83 (1988): 89-97.

“Sharon Thesen Wants to Write ‘the Way Matisse Paints.’” The Globe and Mail. Toronto. 22 Feb. 1989: C7.

Stubbs, Andrew. “Sharon Thesen (1946- ).” Canadian Writers and their Works. Eds. Robert Lecker, Jack David and Ellen Quigley. Toronto: ECW, 1995. 295-368.

Wah, Fred. “Subjective as Objective: The Lyric Poetry of Sharon Thesen.” Essays on Canadian Writing 32 (1986): 114-121.

Whiteman, Bruce. “‘We Talk Anyway/ Being Human’: The Poetry of Sharon Thesen.” Essays on Canadian Writing (1991): 54.
BIOGRAPHY
Sharon Thesen was born in 1946 in Tisdale, Saskatchewan, and moved to British Columbia to attend school. She received her BA and her MA from Simon Fraser University, and now teaches English at Capilano College. She serves as poetry editor of the Capilano Review.

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