Bertrand Bickersteth

Bertrand Bickersteth was born in Sierra Leone, raised in Alberta, and has lived in the U.K. and the U.S. Bickersteth is an educator who also writes poems and plays. His poetry has appeared in several publications, including the Antigonish Review, Cosmonauts Avenue, and the Prairie Journal, as well as the anthology The Great Black North: Contemporary African Canadian Poetry (Frontenac House). In 2018, he was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. His most recent work, The Response of Weeds, is a collection of poems published by NeWest Press. He lives in Calgary, teaches at Olds College and often (always, actually) writes about black history in western Canada.

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