Marius Kociejowski was born in 1949 in Bishop Mills, Ontario. In 1973, he left Canada and later settled in London. Mr. Kociejowski's father & mother were Polish & English, respectively. His first collection of poetry was Coast, published by Greville Press in 1991. Anvil Press then published Doctor Honoris Causa (1993) and Music's Bride (1999). A Canadian edition of his poems, which collected the above, So Dance the Lords of Language, was published by Porcupine's Quill in 2003. He has also published two books on Syria, The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool: A Syrian Journey (Sutton, 2004) and a sequel, The Pigeon Wars of Damascus (Biblioasis, 2010), and edited the anthology Syria through Writers' Eyes (Eland, 2006). He lives in London and is currently at work on a record of a world journey through London's exiled and émigré artists, writers, poets and musicians. This data is taken from PN Review 203, Volume 38 Number 3, January - February 2012.in conversation with Marius Kociejowski by Evan Jones Accessed at
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