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Richard Sanger (19602022) grew up in Ottawa and lived in Toronto. He published three poetry collections and a chapbook, Fathers at Hockey (2020); Dark Woods, was named one of the top ten poetry books of 2018 by the New York Times. His plays included Not Spain, Two Words for Snow, Hannah's Turn, and Dive as well as translations of Calderon, Lorca, and Lope de Vega. He also published essays, reviews, and poetry translations.
Praise for Dark Woods The rueful, lucid, deliberately casual poems in Dark Woods can surprise you with their tenderness, but also with their prickly intelligence. -New York Times In the poems' accentual, lightly metered stanzas we are made conscious of time passing, the body aging, and those quiet moments outside time ... understated and moving. -Malahat Review [Sanger's] poems are tender and often funny. Sometimes arch, sometimes bemused, he is a humane observer of daily life ... Throughout Dark Woods, his cleverness and verbal mischief enliven traditional forms. -Canadian Literature Praise for Richard Sanger Splendidly-shaped and imagistically adroit. These are outstanding poems. -Globe and Mail Spectacular ... Sophisticated metrical sense, teasing wit and limitless linguistic resources ... The real thing: an original poet of rare talent. -Montreal Gazette Very accomplished ... [Sanger] writes in a voice that is all his own, and its groundtone is a cleverly, progressively sophisticated one which is never merely adroit. -Journal of Canadian Poetry
