Alex Boyd

About me

Gender Male
Location Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Introduction I'm a Toronto writer of poems, essays, fiction and reviews as well as an editor of the online journal Northern Poetry Review. Making Bones Walk (poems) was published in 2007 and is available from Luna Publications.
Interests Reading, Writing, Music, Film, Travel.
Favorite Movies The Bicycle Thief, I Confess, The Wrong Man, North By Northwest, Ghost Dog, Mystery Train, The Thin Red Line, The New World, The Elephant Man, The Magnificent Seven, Seven Samuari, High Noon, A Fistful of Dollars, House of Flying Daggers, 12 Angry Men, How Harry Became a Tree.
Favorite Music Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Chris Joss, Cowboy Junkies, David Usher, DJ Food, Duke Ellington, Etta James, Gotan Project, Groove Armada, Koop, Massive Attack, Moby, Morcheeba, Peace Orchestra, Philip Glass, Sia, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Tanita Tikaram, Tin Hat Trio, Tom Waits, Tricky, Zero 7.
Favorite Books The English Patient, Hound of the Baskervilles, 1984, Lives of the Monster Dogs, The Wars, The Remains of the Day, The Great Gatsby, When I Was Young And In My Prime, Pontypool Changes Everything, The Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The End of the Affair, The Lover.