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The Parliament of Canada Act states that the laureate may: [1] Write poems "especially for use in Parliament on important occasions" Sponsor poetry readings; Give advice to "the Parliamentary Librarian regarding the Library's collection and acquisitions to enrich its cultural materials"
Bruce Hunter was born in Calgary, Alberta.He is the author of ten books, seven of them poetry, as well as a collection of linked short stories and a novel.In 2010, his seventh book, Two O'Clock Creek - Poems New and Selected won the Acorn-Plantos Peoples' Poetry Award.
Dorothy Livesay, 1929. Livesay's first collection of poetry, Green Pitcher, was published in 1928, when she was only nineteen.The Encyclopedia of Literature says, "these were well-crafted poems that not only showed skilled use of the imagist technique but prefigured Margaret Atwood's condemnations of exploitative and fearful attitudes to the Canadian landscape."
The first book of poetry published in Canada following the formation of the new Dominion of Canada in 1867 was Dreamland by Charles Mair (1868).. A group of poets now known as the "Confederation Poets", including Charles G. D. Roberts, Archibald Lampman, Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott, and William Wilfred Campbell, came to prominence in the 1880s and 1890s.
Shane L. Koyczan / ˈ k ɔɪ ˌ z æ n /, [2] born 22 May 1976, is a Canadian spoken word poet, writer, and member of the group Tons of Fun University.He is known for writing about issues like bullying, cancer, death, and eating disorders.
The poem won Pratt the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honor, for poetry in 1952. [1] It is written in an epic style, where characters engage in both verbal and physical struggle. The poem also has a political context, illuminated by the debates between Prime Minister John A. Macdonald (for the railway) versus Edward Blake ...
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In Montreal, he published some of his early poems in the political magazine, New Frontiers. [7] In 1956 he self-published a mimeographed chapbook, In Love and Anger, his first collection of poems. [8] In the 1950s some of his poetry was published in the magazine Canadian Forum. [9] He was for a short time married to poet Gwendolyn MacEwen. [10 ...