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Tom Wayman’s many titles with Harbour Publishing include Dirty Snow, which won the 2013 Acorn-Plantos Award, and My Father’s Cup, shortlisted for the 2003 Governor General’s Literary Award. In 2015 Wayman was named a Vancouver Literary Landmark, with a plaque on the city’s Commercial Drive commemorating his championing of people writing for themselves about their daily employment. Since 1989 he has been based in the Slocan Valley in southeastern BC, where he is active in a number of community literary ventures. His website is www.tomwayman.com.
Passionate and lyrical by turns, didactic at others, insisting that ideals matter, that people must strive for more empathy and honesty, Wayman demands much of his readers. He leaves us, as always, with a fire in the belly and a smile on our lips. --Alberta Views Wayman's strength, and it is great, lies in his ability to strip away the sheath blocking our understanding of common experience....He doesn't overreach. He knows what detail to add and when to allow the story to tell itself. In this simplicity he is a Canadian Neruda. --Prairie Fire ""Vintage Wayman: engaged, observant, prickly, lusty, and open to what the world . . . [has] to teach us about ourselves."" --Canadian Literature ""Wayman's gift lies in his ability to corner both the small and large contexts of our lives: from the particular and human day-to-day struggles to the larger political struggles which inform and shape those days."" --Contemporary Verse 2
