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Orville Lloyd Douglas (born September 26 1976) is a Canadian poet and writer. His work typically concentrates on class, gender, pop culture, race, and sexuality.
Biography
Douglas was born in Toronto, Ontario to Jamaican-Canadian parents. He graduated from York University with a BA degree in history in June 2004.
Douglas' first volume of poetry, You Don't Know Me, was published by TSAR with typographical and spelling errors. Douglas was shocked that Nurjehan Aziz the publisher of TSAR Publications would publish his book with errors. Douglas asked Aziz if TSAR has a copy editor yet TSAR forced Douglas and TSAR failed to deliver. Douglas was extremely disappointed with the unprofessionalism of the publishers of TSAR Nurjehan Aziz and her husband the Giller Prize winning writer M.G.Vassanji. A termination agreement was later reached between Douglas and TSAR and the rights of the collection reverted back to Douglas.
You Don't Know Me is no longer in print. Although Douglas was extremely distraught at the overall quality of the poetry collection, it still reached an international audience in New Zealand, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The poetry explores issues such as the hypocrisy and racism of the mainstream gay community, double standards of the black community, family discord, depression, love, and homophobia.
A former book reviewer for the Toronto urban hip hop publication Word Magazine, Douglas has contributed to several Canadian and international publications, including The Toronto Star, Xtra!, NOW, The Georgia Straight, The New Zealand Herald, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Douglas' poetry has been featured in The Vermillion Literary Project and Seminal (2007), the first anthology of gay Canadian poetry.
In 2007, Douglas' fifteen minute radio documentary "The Good Son" was broadcast across Canada on the CBC Radio One program Outfront. The first section of the documentary was an interwoven quilt of Douglas reading his poetry and interviewing his father. The second part of the documentary was a monologue as Douglas exploring issues such as homophobia in the black community, heterosexual marriage, family discord, and society's racism against young, gay black men.
Bibliography
- You Don't Know Me (2005)
Radio documentaries
- "The Good Son" - CBC Radio - 2007
References
External links
- Douglas' personal website
- 2005 Xtra interview with Douglas
- Douglas' "Shades of Blackface" essay in The New Zealand Herald
- Douglas' "Is White The New Black?" article in The Georgia Straight