Peter van Toorn explained

Peter van Toorn (1944 – October 6, 2021)^[1] was a Canadian poet whose 1984 collection Mountain Tea^[2] was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 1984 Governor General's Awards.^[3]

Born in the Netherlands, Van Toorn moved to Canada with his family as a child. He attended McGill University, and taught for almost 30 years at John Abbott College. He published the collections Leeway Grass (1970) and In Guildenstern County (1973) and edited the anthologies Cross/cut: Contemporary English Quebec Poetry (1982) and The Insecurity of Art: Essays on Poetics (1982), prior to the publication of Mountain Tea.^[4] He published no new work following Mountain Tea, although Mountain Tea itself was reissued in 2003 by Véhicule Press.^[4]

Works

• Leeway Grass. Montreal: Delta Canada, 1970.
• Love Song. New York: Doctor Generosity Press, 1970.
• Four Montreal Poets (by Peter Van Toorn, Marc Plourde, Arty Gold, & Richard Sommer; edited by David Solway). Fredericton, NB: Fiddlehead Poetry Books, 1973.
• In Guilderstern County. Lasalle, QC: Delta Canada, 1973.
• Mountain Stick. Montreal: Versus, 1976.
• Mountain Tea, and other poems. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1984.
  • Mountain Tea. Montreal: Véhicule Press, 2003.

Notes and References

1. https://www.vehiculepress.com/pdf/Vehicule%20Press-SS22Catalogue_Full.pdf "PETER VAN TOORN (1944-2021)"
2. http://www.booksincanada.com/article_view.asp?id=2980 "Peter van Toorn riggin dat slapstuff"
3. "Recollections". Canadian Literature, Summer 2006, Issue 189, pp. 139–142.
4. http://jacketmagazine.com/34/c-vantoorn.shtml Peter van Toorn: Six Poems