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EDUCATION
2010
BA Degree (HONOURS) in English and Creative Writing at University of Calgary Thesis:
“Dimensional Translations: A Topological Journey Beyond the Two-
Dimensional Space of the Page in Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un Coup de dés.”
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PUBLICATIONS
Books (Authored)
Poetry
2018
Un Coup de dés Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard: Translation. Manchester, UK: Apple Pie Editions, 2017. Print.
2011
Un Coup de dés Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard: Translations in Higher Dimensions. UBU Editions, 2011. Web.
-Reviewed by Annette Gilbert in Im toten Winkel der Literatur: Grenzfälle literarischer Werkserdung
seit den 1950er Jahren. Expeditionen in die dreidimensionale Typographie. 2018: 150-153. Print
-Reviewed by Rita Raley in cr:the new centennial review: Translation and the Global Humanities 16:1.
Algorithmic Translations. 2016: 115-137. Print.
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LITERARY ARTICLES in EDITED ANTHOLOGIES/TRANSLATIONS
2012
“Dimensional Translations: A Topological Journey Beyond the Two-Dimensional Space of the Page in Stéphane Mallarmé’s
Un Coup de dés.” (Text in German) Weideraufgelegt: Zur Appropriation von Texten und Büchern in Bũchern.
(Annette Gilbert, ed.) Bielefeld, DE: Transcript Verlag, 2012. 217-230. Print.
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CREATIVE WRITING in EDITED ANTHOLOGIES
2018
“Igitur Suite: 5 Visual Poems.” TBA (Philip Davenport, ed.). Manchester, UK: Apple PieEditions, 2017. Web.
2016
“Gallus,” “Solarium 1.” The Calgary Renaissance. (derek beaulieu and rob mclennan, ed).
Ottawa, ON: Chaudiere Books, 2016. 155, 156. Print.
2015
“Howl #16.” The New Concrete: Visual Poetry of the 21st Century. (Victoria Bean and Chris McCabe, ed.).
London, UK: Hayward Publishing, 2015. 206, 207. Print
“KME can only be defined as…” Their Biography: An Organism of Relationships. (kevin mcpherson eckhoff, ed.).
Toronto, ON: Book Thug, 2015. 12-13. Print.
2013
“The Gate of Hell,” “Infernal Hurricane,” “Dis,” “Wood of Thorns,” “The Violent Against Art,”“Cocytus,” “The Chasm of Lethe.”
The Dark Would: Text/Art Anthology Volume 1 (Philip Davenport, ed.).
Manchester, UK: Apple Pie Editions, 2013. 13, 177-180. Print.
“Wood of Thorns.” The Dark Would: Text/Art Anthology Volume 2. (Philip Davenport, ed.).
Manchester, UK: Apple Pie Editions, 2013. Cover image. ebook.
“Love that Moves,” “The Violent Against Art,” “The Chasm of Lethe,” “Lost in a Darkwood #1,” “Love that Moves #3
”The Dark Would: Text/Art Anthology Volume 2. (Philip Davenport, ed.).
Manchester, UK: Apple Pie Editions, 2013. np. ebook.
4 visual poems from Un Coup de dés Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard: Translations in Higher Dimensions.”
Re-Print: Appropriation (&) Literature. (Annette Gilbert, ed.) Wiesbaden, DE: luxbooks, 2013. 492-496. Print.
“Mona Lisa: An Algorithmic Translation,” “Starry Night Balance: An Algorithmic Translation,”
“Transfiguration: An Algorithmic Translation,” “Le Pigeon Aux Petits Pois: An Algorithmic Translation.”
DIARIUM 1/2013. (Harmut Andryczuk, ed.). Berlin, DE: Hybriden-Verlag, 2013. 30-40. Print.
2012
“Retinol.” A Global Visuage. (Jörg Piringer and Günter Vallaster, ed.). Wien, AUT: edition ch, 2012. 88. Print.
“Sonnet 30.” The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare. (Paul Legault and Sharmila Cohen, ed.).
NY: Telephone Books & Nightboat Books, 2012. 48. Print.
“Two visual poems.” Local Colour: Ghosts. (derek beaulieu and Ola Ståhl, ed.). Malmö, SWE:In Edit Mode Press, 2012. np. Print.
“Ununseptium.”AngelHouse (Amanda Earl, ed.). Ottawa: AngelHouse P, 2012. np. Web.
2011
“Arecebo Silence.” AngelHouse. (Amanda Earl, ed.). Ottawa: AngelHouse P, 2011. np. Web.
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CONTRIBUTIONS in PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
2013
“untitled #1,” “untitled #2,” “ascorbic acid,” “dha,” “retinol constellation.” ti< a journal of text-
and-image criticism/creation / un journal de critique/creation texte-et-image. (Spring 2013): np.Web.
“Tin,” “Boron,” “Unquadnilium, “Untripentium.” Western Humanities Review. (Winter 2013): 125-129. Print.
2011
“Veil 1-3.”Western Humanities Review. 65.2 (Summer 2011): 26-29. Print.
2010
“IT WAS born of stars.” Canadian Literature Quarterly. 206 (Autumn 2010): 29. Print.
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CREATIVE WRITING PUBLISHED in LITERARY MAGAZINES
2015
“Cancer Minor,” “Musca Borealis 6,” “neuro/91,” “Solarium.”
Lana Turner: Journal of Poetry and Opinion 8 (2015): 19, 81, 135, 245. Print.
2014
“ Alphabetica #81.” Lana Turner: Journal of Poetry and Opinion 7 (2014): Cover image. Print.
“Lilium,” “Cerberus,” “Tigris.” Matrix Magazine: Calgary Edition (2014): 16- 21. Print.
2013
“Da Vinci’s Automobile,” “Polluck’s Convergence,” “Dali’s The Persistence of Memory,” “Da Vinci’s Lily #6,”
“Da Vinci’s Lily #7,” “Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa #1,” “Da Vinci’s Womb Study #3,” “Annunciazione #5,”
“Bernstein’s Alphabetica #77,” “Da Vinci’s Annunciation #4,” “Van Gogh’s Starry Night Balance #5b,”
“Da Vinci’s Star-of-Bethlehem #2.”Lana Turner: Journal of Poetry and Opinion 6 (2013):
7, 14, 20, 25, 40, 45, 50, 57, 86, 135, 145, 152, Print.
“In Praise of Depression.” Poetry is Dead Magazine, Issue #1 Volume #4: Inside Outside (2013): 35. Print.
2012
“HbCh 4,” “HbCh 6,” “cys 2,” “shrapnel #4: raunchy phone sex (obama has failed).”
Joyland. ed Jon Paul Fiorentino. (November 2012): np. Web.
“Choline Supercluster” Rampike. Vol 21/No. 2: Poetics Part Two. (2012): 71. Print.
“Shrapnel #2: Seeing Ghosts.” Matrix Magazine Online Addendum. (2012): np. Web.
“ICN 3142” and “HCV.” Uppercase. Concrete Poetry: An Alphabetic Dreamscape. ed. derek beaulieu. 14 (2012): 61. Print.
“ICN 3142 #2,” “Cetus,” “Arecibo Silence,” “Choline Supercluster #3.”
Lana Turner: Journal of Poetry and Opinion 5 (2012): 71, 96, 97, 117. Print.
“119 Ununennium,” “120 Unbinilium,” “GSH,” “Taurine.” filling Station. 53 (2012): 34-37. Print.
“Arsenic” and “Lawrencium.” echolocation. 12 (Fall 2012): 40-42. Print.
“Chains 33” and “Chains 39.” NōD Magazine. 15 (2012): 19-20. Print.
“M-1.” Ideomancer: Speculative Fiction. (2012): np. Web.
2011
“N’Abolira,” “Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis,” “Emily Dickinson’s I lost a World - the other day!”
Rampike: Scientific Wonders. Vol.20/No. 2 (2011): 40. Print.
“sP 1-8.” Lana Turner: Journal of Poetry and Opinion. 4 (2011): 192-199. Print.
“wH2,” “wH4,” “wH5.” echolocation. 11 (September 2011): 48-53. Print.
“Alphabetica 6-10.” The Adirondack Review. Vol XI, No. 4 (Spring 2011): np. Web.
Reviewed on Poetry Foundation: Harriet Blog March 4, 2011.
“Margaret Atwood’s You Fit into Me,” “Lord Byron’s Prometheus,” “Flatland.” filling Station. 49 (2011): 42-45. Print.
“Wasteland #2.” graffiti kolkata. 8 (June 2010): np. Broadside.
“4 visual poems.” [w/ Andrew Topel] 22 Magazine. Vol 1 (2011): np. Web.
2010
“Ursa Minor,” “dipp∑r 3490.” NōD Magazine. 2011: 20-21. Print.
“theory.” echolocation. 10 (September 2010): 63. Print.
2009
“wernicke’s aphasia,” “vulpecula.” echolocation. 8 (April 2009): 36-37. Print.
2007
“Young Girl.” NōD Magazine. 7 (2007): np. Print.
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ARTISTIC ARTICLES in LITERARY MAGAZINES
2012
“Xenogenous Language.” Rampike. Vol 21/No. 2: Poetics Part Two. (2012): 71. Print.
“Untitled.” filling Station. 54 (2012): 34. Print.
2011
“Algorithmic Translation.” Lana Turner: Journal of Poetry and Opinion. 4 (2011): 191. Print.
“Algorithmic Translations.” Rampike. Vol.20/No. 2 Scientific Wonders (2011): 40. Print.
“Feature Portfolio: Algorithmic Translations.” echolocation. 11 (September 2011): 48. Print.
“Untitled.” filling Station. 49 (2011): 45. Print.
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LITERARY EPHEMERA & LIMITED EDITIONS
2015
A Limited Lexicon. Xenotext Special Edition. Toronto, Coach House Books, 2015.
Haute Cuisine. Calgary: Spacecraft Press, 2015. Broadside.
HC#6. London, ON, Brick Books, 2015. Web.
2013
Ethanol. Berlin: Broken Dimanche Press, 2013.
epa. New Poetry, 2013. Web.
At the Heart of a Shipwreck. Hamilton: Jacket2, 2013. Web.2012.
The Depths of a Shipwreck. Calgary: Self-published, 2012. [Promotional ephemera].
119-Ununennium, 120-Unbinilium, Taurine, GSH. Calgary: Self-published, 2012 [Promotional ephemera].
Shrapnel #5: Republican Convention Carve Up. Calgary: No Press, 2012.
Translations [2nd Edition]. [w/ Andrew Topel]. Jacksonville, FL: avantacular, 2012.
2011
Noble Gases. Calgary: No Press, 2011.
Howl 16. London, UK: Whitechapel Gallery, 2011.
Alphabetica 11. Calgary: No Press, 2011.
FGM [2 Editions]. Calgary: No Press, 2011.
Howl 16. London, UK: Information as Material, 2011. Broadside.
Howl 16. Calgary: Self-published, 2011. [Promotional ephemera]
Non-Euclidean Haiku #7. Calgary: Self-published, 2011. [Promotional ephemera]
Howl 3. Manchester: Bury Art Gallery, 2011.
Alphabetica 1. Manchester: Bury Art Gallery, 2011
Reviewed by Rita Raley in cr:the new centennial review: Translation and the Global Humanities 16:1.
Algorithmic Translations. 2016: 115-137. Print.
Make a Joyful Noise unto the Lord. [w/ Andrew Topel]. Clearwater, FL: avantacular, 2011.
2010
Translations: Book 1 & 2 [1st Edition]. [w/ Andrew Topel]. Jacksonville, FL: avantacular, 2010.
Reviewed on Third Factory/Notes on Poetry by Craig Dworkin, 2011.
Untitled Visual Poem. Jacksonville, FL: avantacular, 2010.
Un Coup de dés Jamais N’Abolira Le Hasard: Vecteur. Calgary: No Press, 2010.
Bang Theory. Calgary: University of Calgary, 2010.
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ARTICLES in NEWSPAPERS
2006
Zboya, Eric. “A place to pray.” The Gauntlet. Vol 47, Issue 13. 2006: 5. Print.
- - -. “Hey good lookin’, lemme buy you a drink.” The Gauntlet. Vol 47, Issue 11. 2006: 9. Print.
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CREATIVE WORK in ARTISTIC CATALOGUES
2012
“169” Shandy Hall Gallery, Coxwold, Yorkshire, UK. 2012. Print.
“The Depths of a Shipwreck” Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO. 2012. Print.
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EXHIBITIONS
Art - Group
2015
TEXTfestschrift. Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, Manchester, UK.
2014
skin+inks. The Sugar Cube Gallery, Calgary, AB.
Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art.
The Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (2013-14).
The Dark Would: Text/Art Anthology Volume 3. Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, Manchester, UK.
2013
The Dark Would: Text/Art Anthology Volume 3. The Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK.
- - - Summerhall, Edinburgh, UK.
Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art. The Power Plant, Toronto, ONT.
Braille Babble / Braille Babble. Rodman Hall Art Centre, St. Catherine, ONT.
Learn to Read Differently. Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK.
Graphéine. Les Abittoirs - Toulouse Museum of Contemporary Art, Toulouse, FR.
A Kind of Huh? Espace d’exposition municipal de Grenade, Grenade, FR.
2012
A Kind of Huh? Les Abittoirs - Toulouse Museum of Contemporary Art, Toulouse, FR (2012-2013).
Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art. Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, USA. (2012-2013).
The Signs of the Body Speak Another Language: Annual Experimental Exhibition. Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK.
2011
The Emblem of my Work. Shandy Hall Gallery, Coxwold, Yorkshire, UK.
Howl 16. Information as Material. The Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK.
Reviewed by derek beaulieu at Museum of Contemporary Art Blogspot. 2013: np. Web
Convergence: Literary Art Exhibitions. The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, UK.
- - - Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, IE
Apara. Summerhall Arts Complex, Edinburgh, UK.
Text Festival 3. Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, Manchester, UK.
22 Magazine Gala. Cafe Orwell, Brooklyn, NY.
synesthesia: unframed, unbound(ed). Latitude 53, Edmonton, AB.
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INTERVIEWS
2016
McLennan, Rob. “The Calgary Renaissance: an interview with Eric Zboya.” chaudiere books. November 30, 2016. np. Web
2013
Barwin, Gary. “Translation 2.0: Eric Zboya’s At the Heart of a Shipwreck.” Jacket2. September 22, 2013. np. Web.
2011
Gilbert, Catherine. “An Interview with Eric Zboya.” 22 Magazine. Vol 1. April 2011. np. Web.
2010
Bök, Christian. “An Interview with Eric Zboya: The Higher Dimensions of the Poem. Part 1 and Part 2.”
Poetry Foundation-Harriet Blog. April 2010. np. Web.
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RESIDENCIES
2013
Literary Arts Self-directed Writing Residency. The Banff Centre, Banff, AB.
2012
Literary Arts Self-directed Writing Residency. The Banff Centre, Banff, AB.
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ACADEMIC LECTURES, READINGS, and PERFORMANCES
2014
The Dark Would: Text/Art Anthology Volume 3. (Philip Davenport, ed.). Manchester, UK. Animation.
2013
Poetry is Dead, Issue #1 Volume #4 Launch, Shelf Life Books, Calgary.
2012
filling Station. Shelf Life Books, Calgary.
filling Station. Pages Bookstore, Calgary.
Poem of the Season, sponsored by the University of Calgary, Pages Bookstore, Calgary.
2010
filling Station, Truck Gallery, Calgary.
Points of Departure, English Honours Colloquium, University of Calgary.
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ACCOLADES
2013
Alberta Magazine Showcase Awards, Poetry selection - Finalist.
Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry - Finalist.
2011
The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2011 - Honourable Mentions.