Shaunt Basmajian (30 September 1950 – 25 January 1990) was a Canadian poet and author.
He was a co-founder of Old Nun Publications and was a member of the Parliament Street Library poetry group.
In 1986, he was attacked with a knife and robbed while he was driving a taxi. His right lung was punctured when a robber stabbed him. He died one year later when his heart lining collapsed.
Bibliography
1972: Spare Change 1973: Quote Unquote 1974: The Horserace As The Analogy 1976: The Poem "In A Struggle with the Magnetic Source" 1980: Boundaries Limits & Space 1982: Surplus Waste and Other Poems 1983: 8 Irritations 1984: Other Channels (poetry anthology coëdited with Daniel Jones) 1985: Poets Who Don't Dance 1986: Options 1987: A Seduction-Poem For Miss January 1988: 3 poems 1988: Biased Analogies 1989: bfp(h)aGe (concrete poetry anthology coëdited with Brian David Johnston) 1990: I am/I'm
References
External links Records of Shaunt Basmajian are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books