A Small Essay on the Largeness Of Light and Other Poems

His earlier poems are collected in Delicate Bodies, The White Line, Sixteen Jesuses (Exile Editions), and River Range — a CD with music. His plays include Coyote City, a nominee for the 1991 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama, The Dreaming Beauty, a winner of the 1990 Theatre Canada National Playwrighting Competition, and The Indian Medicine Shows (Exile Editions) which garnered the 1996 James Buller Memorial Award for Excellence in Aboriginal Theatre. He has also released with Exile Editions the nonfiction Pursued by a Bear—Talks, Monologues and Tales, the dramas Big Buck City, Brébeuf’s Ghost, and Kyotopolis, as well as edited The Exile Book of Native Canadian Fiction and Drama.

Moses was one of Canada’s foremost First Nations writers, editor, essayist, dramaturge, and teacher. He hails from the Six Nations Reserve in southern Ontario and holds an Honours B.A. from York University and an M.F.A. from the University of British Columbia. He was an associate professor in the Department of Drama at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario.

Click here for a CBC article following his death.