Jonathan Locke Hart

Born in Canada, poet and literary scholar Jonathan Locke Hart earned a BA, MA, and PhD from the University of Toronto and a PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has taught literary theory, intellectual and cultural history, and creative writing at universities in Canada, France, China, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

From free verse to sonnet forms, Hart’s poetry is rooted in images that express the relationship between the soul and physical environments, using the geography and nature of the many places Hart has lived as a starting point. He writes about internal and external movement and the experience of being in time and space, and as a poet, has collaborated with artists to create artist books and exhibitions. His collections include Unforgetting Private Charles Smith (2019), The Burning Lake (2016), Musing (2011), Dreamwork (2010), Dream Salvage (2003), Dream China (2002), and Breath and Dust (2000). His work has appeared in Harvard Review, Mattoid, Quarry, The Antigonish Review, among other journals, and has been translated to several languages, including Estonian, Slovenian, Chinese, Greek, Polish, and French.