David Clink is the former
Board President and Artistic
Director of the Rowers Pub Reading
Series, and former Artistic Director
of the Art Bar Poetry Series. David
has written over 500 poems, and his poetry has appeared in over 50 journals
including Analog Science Fiction and Fact
(4 times), The Antigonish Review
(2 times), Asimov's Science Fiction (2
times), Cicada,
CV2: Contemporary Verse 2,
The Dalhousie Review (4 times),
Descant, echolocation,
Existere: Journal of Arts and Literature (5 times),
The Fiddlehead,
Grain Magazine, The Literary
Review of Canada (5 times), Matrix
Magazine, On Spec: The Canadian
Magazine of the Fantastic (2 times),
The Prairie Journal of Canadian Literature (2 times),
Prism International, The
Toronto Quarterly, and in over ten anthologies, including
Tesseracts 14 and Tesseracts 16, and,
Imaginarium 2012: The Best Canadian
Speculative Writing, and, Imaginarium
2013. He has a poem in Guernica's
Poet to Poet Anthology, and their I Found It At The Movies anthology.
He has poems forthcoming in The
Antigonish Review,
On Spec, and Asimov's Science Fiction, and the anthology
Tesseracts 18: Wrestling With Gods: Faith in Science Fiction and Fantasy. He is a member of four writing groups. He
was co-publisher, along with Myna Wallin, of
Believe Your Own Press, which
published twenty quality chapbooks in its five year history. His poem, "A sea
monster tells his story" won the 2013
Aurora Award for Best Poem/Song, and was also nominated for a
Rhysling Award. His poem, "Falling" was nominated for two awards: the
Rhysling Award and the Aurora
Award. His poem, "Copyright Notice 2525" placed second in the 2007
Asimov's Reader's Poll. David
co-organizes, along with Sandra Kasturi, a one-day poetry workshop, entitled "A
Fistful of Poems" which has been run 7 times. He has two collections of
poetry published by Tightrope Books: Eating Fruit
Out of Season (2008) and Monster
(2010). He edited an anthology of environmental poetry called:
A Verdant Green (The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box, 2010). His third collection,
Crouching Yak, Hidden Emu, a book of
humorous poems, was published by The
Battered Silicon Dispatch Box in October 2012.