Ontario-born Bruce McRae began writing poems in his 40s while dabbling with performance poetry in London during the mid 90s, where he lived for 20 years. A prolific writer, he’s had poems, plays and photographs published in hundred of magazines, books and anthologies, with many of his poems put to music and broadcast in the U.S., U.K., Europe, Canada and Australia.
A musician, he’s played in a number of bands in Canada, then in England, and is still heavily involved with music, recording and releasing songs into his 70th year. Fugitive by nature, apparently, he’s lived all over hell’s half acre, and is currently settled in the Gulf Islands. A multiple Pushcart nominee and winner of the Libretto Prize, Boxing in the Bone Orchard is his fifth collection.