David Solway (born 8 December 1941) is a Canadian poet, essayist, educational theorist, travel writer and literary critic.^[1][2][3]

Solway received a BA in English and Philosophy fromMcGill University in 1962, and a QMA in Philosophy in 1966.^[4] He has later received a MA in creative writing/English fromConcordia University in 1988, a MA in education fromUniversité de Sherbrooke in 1996, and a Ph.Dsumma cum laude fromLajos Kossuth University in 1998.^[5] He was formerly a teacher atDawson College andJohn Abbott College inMontreal, and atBrigham Young University in Provo, Utah,^[4] and has been a guest lecturer at several international universities.^[5] He has "won numerous awards and prizes for his work in both poetry and non-fiction,"^[4] includingQSPELL Awards, Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal andA. M. Klein Prize for Poetry.^[5]

Solway is known for his work both as a poet, essayist and as a teacher, as well as for hispolemical outspokenness, especially in opposition toIslam and in defense ofZionism.^[6] He has contributed political commentary to the conservative websitesWorldNetDaily andPJ Media, and has been described as a part of thecounter-jihad movement.^[7]

For inspiration, he invented a Greek poet namedAndreas Karavis as aheteronym, whose work he published in apparent translation.^[5]

• The Road to Arginos (1976)
• Twelve Sonnets (1978)
• Mephistopheles and the Astronaut (1979)
• Stones in Water (1983)
• Modern Marriage (1987)
• Bedrock (1993)
• Chess Pieces (1999)
• Saracen Island: The Poetry of Andreas Karavis (as Andreas Karavis; 2000)
• The Lover's Progress: Poems after William Hogarth (2001)
• Franklin's Passage (2003)
• The Pallikari Of Nesmine Rifat (as Nesmine Rifat; 2005)
• Reaching for Clear: The Poetry of Rhys Savarin (2007)
• Windsurfing (2008)

• Education Lost (1989)
• Random Walks
• Lying about the Wolf: Essays in Culture & Education (1997)
• The Turtle Hypodermic of Sickenpods: Liberal Studies in the Corporate Age (2000)
• An Andreas Karavis Companion (2000)
• Director's Cut (2003)
• The Big Lie: On Terror, Antisemitism, and Identity (2007)
• Hear, O Israel! (2009)
• Notes from a Derelict Culture (2019)
• Crossing the Jordan: On Judaism, Islam, and the West (2024)

• New, W. H., ed.The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. p. 1058.
• Carmine Starnino, ed.David Solway, Essays on His Works (2001)

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• 21st-century Canadian poets
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• Canadian critics of Islam
• Canadian male non-fiction writers
• Canadian male poets
• Canadian literary critics
• Canadian political writers
• Canadian Zionists
• Counter-jihad activists
• Jewish Canadian journalists
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