I’ve been writing since my youth, and began writing for others at about age 22, and later producing books from 1980 to today (writing during teaching from 1978 to 2002). My poetry writing became more serious beginning in 1980.
These are the 25 high-school English textbooks (with 23 teacher’s guides), which have sold over a million copies between 1981 and 2005:
(beginning with…)
-1981: Connections 1: Imagining (Gage)
-Connections 2: Relating (Gage)
-Connections 3: Discovering (Gage)
-1984: Inside Poetry (Harcourt)
-1986: Dimensions: A Book of Essays (Gage)
-1987: Inside Stories 1 (Harcourt)
-Inside Stories 2 (Harcourt)
-1990: Connections 1: Imagining revised (Gage)
-Connections 2: Relating revised (Gage)
-Connections 3: Discovering revised (Gage)
-1993: Inside Stories for Senior Students (Harcourt)
-1995: Choices (Harcourt)
-1996: Dimensions II (Gage)
-1999: Inside Stories 1 2nd ed. (Harcourt)
-Inside Stories 2 2nd ed. (Harcourt)
2000: Canadian Writer’s Handbook (Gage)
Crossroads 10 (Gage)
2002: Between the Lines 11 (Nelson)
Between the Lines 12 (Nelson)
Inside Poetry 2nd ed. (Harcourt)
Inside Stories 3 (Harcourt)
2008: Canadian Writer’s Handbook (Nelson)
Speak Out/Persuade Me (Pearson)
Find Your Own Path (Pearson)
Eco Zone/Survive (Pearson)
There were several projects completed but never published:
1986: drama series (Gage)
1995: Shakespeare magazine: Hamlet (Prentice-Hall)
2005: gr. 9 short story anthology (Harcourt)
2010: Inside E-Media (Emond Montgomery)
The Personal Book Projects
(beginning with…)
1984: They Also Write Who Stand and Teach (ELAC)
1990: Lost Not Missing–Spiritus
1991: This, That, The Other–Selected Poems of Spiritus
2001: Negative Capability-RD
2016: The Rest of It-RD
2018: Opus (in Six Suites)-RD
2019: Greatest Hits Vol. 1-RD
2020: Upward and Onward-RD
(In addition, I have written over 25 songs, 2 Fringe plays, hundreds of poems, many nonfictional pieces, and myriad blog entries on my two blogs. I have taught thousands of students in schools, thousands of teachers at conferences and workshops. I have read for several hundred people over the years. And I have performed music for 2-3 thousand people over the years.)
*For a selection of my poems, use blog’s Search for Richard Davies/Poems.