Poet  (1916 AD～July 21, 2008 AD)

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　　Michael Bullock was born in 1916 in London, England where he worked for many years as a freelance writer and translator. His prolific, life long writing career was not limited, it seems, by genre, and he was to produce essays, plays, works in translation, prose, and poetry throughout his career. As well as being a prolific writer and translator, Bullock was the founder, and for five years editor, of the British poetry magazine Expression, as well as editor-in-chief of Prism International. Considered a surrealist (he was a founding member of Melmoth Vancouver, originally titled The Vancouver Surrealist Newsletter) Bullock was unafraid to push the limits of creative writing, often blending poems with music and visual art. Bullock has, in fact, displayed his own artwork in exhibitions and galleries, as well as using it to augment his textual works. He was educated at the Hornsey College of Art and the Polytechnic School of Language, and was, in fact, chosen as chairman of the British Translators Association in 1963. Bullock came to Canada in 1968 as a Commonwealth Fellow, and in 1969 became a member of The University of British Columbias Creative Writing Department. He retired from the University in 1983 with the rank of Professor Emeritus.
　　
　　Michael Bullock is usually categorized as a surrealist, a designation he willingly accepts. In so far as much of his poetry and all his fiction is characterized by images drawn from the unconscious through the free flow of the imagination, the description is apt ( he has been described as "one of the most wildly imaginative minds ever to reach the printed page" - Wendy Jeffries, Hamilton Spectator ). However, his work is entirely coherent and finely wrought - the product of literary craftsmanship as well as an unfettered and fertile imagination - unlike most of what passes for surrealist writing. It can rarely be considered "automatic writing", though occasionally the author does employ this technique. As one critic puts it: "Talent and labour have produced these polished gnostic visions" (John Reid, Canadian Literature).
　　
　　Many of his books have been translated into various European and Oriental languages, notably German, as well as Punjabi and Bengali and especially Chinese, into which language most of his works have been translated in whole or part. These translations have gained him international renown as a writer. His visual art is less widely known, since the international dissemination of works of art was less easy than it is today. Now, however, his visual art is quickly gaining the recognition it deserves.
　　
　　A celebration of Michael Bullocks' life was held at the UBC Botanical Garden on Saturday August 16, 2008, at 2:30pm.
　　
　　Michael Bullock, poet, painter, translator, and Professor of Creative Writing, University of British Columbia, died in London, England, on July 21, aged 90. His enthusiasm, affection and lively intellect and capacity for engagement with everyone he met will long live on across continents and especially in Vancouver, Hong Kong and the UK.