Peter van Toorn
Peter van Toorn is a Canadian poet, whose 1984 collection Mountain Tea was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 1984 Governor General's Awards.
Born in the Netherlands, Van Toorn moved to Canada with his family as a child. He attended McGill University, and taught for almost 30 years at John Abbott College. He published the collections Leeway Grass and In Guildenstern County and edited the anthologies Cross/cut: Contemporary English Quebec Poetry and The Insecurity of Art: Essays on Poetics, prior to the publication of Mountain Tea. He published no new work following Mountain Tea, although Mountain Tea itself was reissued in 2003 by Véhicule Press.Works
- Leeway Grass. Montreal: Delta Canada, 1970.
- Love Song. New York: Doctor Generosity Press, 1970.
- Four Montreal Poets. Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1973.
- In Guilderstern County. Lasalle, QC: Delta Canada, 1973.
- Mountain Stick. Montreal: Versus, 1976.
- Mountain Tea, and other poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1984.
- * Mountain Tea. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2003.
