Biography:
Philip Hyams is a Canadian/Israeli novelist, poet, artist, journalist and film producer currently residing in Kfar Sava, Israel. Born in 1954 in Montreal, Que. Canada - Mr. Hyams has also lived in London, Amsterdam, Montreal and Toronto. His first novel Canaan Barred was published in 1995 by Tell Books - New York/Toronto and his poetry has been published in more than 120 print and electronic journals around the world from the U.S and Britain to Sweden and South Africa.
While living in Europe he performed his work under the auspices of the internationally known One World Poetry Organization along side poets such as Jack Micheline and Gregory Corso and as an artist was very early on affiliated with the “Copyart” movement producing graphic works on large-format XEROX color copy installations. He has also been a journalist for the Israeli edition of Internet World.
Mr. Hyams has been an award-winning documentary film producer and broadcaster with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation where he was the first producer in North America to cover the plight of North American Natives’ battle with Epidemic Diabetes, as well as an advocate for disability issues. He still serves as Director of Aboriginal Affairs for the Canadian Branch of the Commonwealth Journalists Association. He has been a member of PEN Canada. Mr. Hyams also has held senior marketing management roles for a number of NASDAQ-based companies with an emphasis on Enterprise User Provisioning and Software Security. Currently, Mr. Hyams is involved in a number of commercial and creative print and web-centric projects. Mr. Hyams is listed in Who’s Who In The World - 2002.
Mr. Hyams is married to Lisya Ahituv, the granddaughter of the late, renowned classical Turkish classical composer and musician Chaim Vitale (Chaim Effendi). They have one child.
PUBLICATIONS:
FICTION:
1995 “Canaan Barred” - novel - Tell Publishing Ltd. (Toronto/New York)
2000 “CANAAN BARRED - reissued as e-book
POETRY:
1983 Hans van der Storm Publishers - GHOSTS - poetry chapbook (Amsterdam, NL)
1995 First Time Magazine - one poem (England)
Ariga Magazine - 15 poems (Israel)
- 1999
Ariga magazine - 4 poems (Israel) (4X)
Psychozoan - 6 poems (U.S.A.)
Eclectica Magazine - 6 poems (U.S.A.)
Isibongo Magazine - 5 poems (South Africa)
Gravity Magazine - 4 poems (U.S.A.)
Dead Letters - 3 poems (U.S.A.)
SF Salvo - 24 poems (U.S.A.)(2X)
The Art Bin - 5 poems (Sweden)
Morningstar - 4 poems (U.S.A.)
Talus & Scree - 3 poems (U.S.A.) (2X)
Spirals - 1 poem (U.S.A.)
Columbus’ Electronic Literary Magazine - 23 poems (U.S.A.)
Southern Ocean Review (two poems) - New Zealand
The Oracular Tree -20 poems (U.S.A.
Poetry Magazine - 6 poems (U.S.A.) (2X)
Oblique Magazine - 2 poems (U.S.A.)
Inner-Child Magazine - 3 poems (U.S.A.)
Pogonip.the-eZine.net (U.S.A.)
Offcourse - (2 poems) - (U.S.A.)
Niederngasse - (10 poems) - (U.S.A.)
2000
Amarillo Bay - (2 poems) - (U.S.A.)
Nuvein Magazine (20 poems) -(U.S.A.)
Poetry Magazine (5 poems) - (U.S.A.)
Red Coral (5 poems) - (U.S.A.)
The Animist - (5 poems) - (Australia)
Offcourse - (1 poem) - (U.S.A.)
2001 - 2002
Nuvein Magazine (5 poems) - (U.S.A.)
San Francisco Salvo ( 5 poems) - (U.S.A.)
Red Coral (4 poems) - (U.S.A.)
Red Coral (3 poems) - (U.S.A.)
Ariga ( 1 poem) - (Israel)
Little Brown Poetry (1 poem) - (U.S.A.)
Irelingus (6 poems) - (Ireland)
Experimental forest (10 poems) - (U.S.A.)
Black Bear Review (3 poems) - (U.S.A.)
Free Verse Poetry Journal (1 poem) - (U.S.A.)
Poets Cut (1 poem) - (U.S.A.)
Free Verse Poetry (1 poem) - (U.S.A.)
Apples & Oranges Poetry Journal - (10 poems) - (U.S.A.)
Phatitude - (2 poems) - (U.S.A.) - upcoming
Conspire - (1 poem) - (U.S.A.)
2003 - 2004
Ariga - Three Great Men - (Flash Fiction) - (Israel)
Ululation - Three Great Men - (Flash Fiction) - (U.S.A.)
Conspire Magazine - (1 poem) - (U.S.A.)
Ariga - Three Flash Stories - (Israel)
CBC DOCUMENTARY FILMS:
1992 “THE FIFTY YEAR PLAGUE” - CBC Television - National Broadcast
“NO DOLLARS...NO SENSE” - CBC Television - National Broadcast
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