‘Lilacs And Tributes’
A Book Of Spiritual Poetry
By Ottawa poet Mark Gorman
GLBT community 2009
32 pp; glossy finish, stapled
Publisher River Bones Press
ISBN 978-0-9738671-6-9
$15.00 Canadian
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Mark Gorman was born in Montreal, Quebec on May 6, 1952.
He lived in Montreal, the second-largest French-speaking city
in the world, until he was eight years old. In 1960, Mark and his
family moved to Canada’s capital, Ottawa, where he has lived
ever since. He fell in love with writing while he was still in
childhood. But it was until his teen years that he began
concentrating almost exclusively on writing poetry.
Mark graduated from Ottawa's Carleton University in the fall
of 1977. He had majored in English Literature.
Mark has two disabilities. His ability to walk has long been
severely imperiled, and he has had to use a cane for many years.
He also has a Generalized Anxiety Disorder. For many years,
Mark worked as an arts critic as well a publicist for artists.
In the fall of 2007, Mark was the victim of a serious vehicular
accident, which hospitalized him for four months and left him
with even greater problems when he tries to walk.
Mark’s first book of poetry, Loneliness And Pride, was
published in the spring of 2005 by HBS Press.
In the main, Mark's poetry explores two themes that have long
been constants in his life: his relationship to spirituality as well
as his own life as one who has been gender variant and
transgendered.
