Chad Norman

Chad Norman poems have appeared for nearly 40 years in literary publications across Canada, as well as a number of other countries around the world, and also translated into Albanian, Spanish, Polish, Chinese, Turkish, Italian, and Portugese.
He hosts and organizes RiverWords: Poetry & Music Festival each year in Truro, NS., held at Riverfront Park, the 2nd Saturday of each July.
In October 2016 he was invited by the Nordic Assn. for Canadian Studies to give talks on Canadian Poetry and read from his books at Borupgaard Gym in Copenhagen, and Risskov Gym in Aarhus, as well as other readings in both cities, and Malmo, Sweden. Because of that tour Norman has started the manuscript, Counting Coins In Denmark And Sweden.
 In October of 2017 he read at various Eastern Canada venues in Kingston, Ottawa, and Montreal, reading poems from his Selected and New collection, published by Mosaic Press (Oakville, ON).
In October of 2018 he read at various types of venues from universities to cafes to pubs throughout Ireland, Scotland, Wales, while there he visited Swansea and slept three nights in the room where Dylan Thomas was born. A celebration of Canadian Poetry took place during this tour too.
His most recent books are Simona: A Celebration Of The S.P.C.A., out 2021 from Cyberwit. Net Press (India), and Squall: Poems In The Voice of Mary Shelley, out 2020 from Guernica Editions (Toronto). And a new book, A Matter Of Inclusion, is due out 2022 from Mwanaka Media And Publishing ( Zimbabwe).

He is currently a member of The League Of Canadian Poets.