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"In Flanders Fields" is very popular in Canada, where it is a staple of Remembrance Day ceremonies and may be the best-known literary piece among English Canadians. [36] It has an official French adaptation, entitled "Au champ d'honneur", written by Jean Pariseau and used by the Canadian government in French and bilingual ceremonies. [37]
"A Pittance of Time" is a 2002 Canadian folk song by Terry Kelly and produced by Jefter Publishing – SOCAN. [1] Kelly's intent in writing the song was to remind people to observe the two-minute silence on Remembrance Day , after a man in the same shop as him failed to do so.
David Bromige (1933–2009), Canadian poet living in the United States since 1962; Nicole Brossard (born 1943), francophone poet and novelist; Audrey Alexandra Brown (1904–1998) Ronnie R. Brown (born 1946), United States-born living in Canada for most of her adult life; Colin Browne; Charles Tory Bruce (1906–1971), poet, journalist and ...
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.
Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall (14 September 1883, in Gunnersbury, London – 22 April 1922, in Vancouver) was a Canadian writer who was born in England but lived in Canada from the time she was seven. [1] She was once "thought to be the best Canadian poet of her generation." [2]
Emily Pauline Johnson (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake (pronounced dageh-eeon-wageh, lit. ' double-life '), [1] was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In 1936, Finch published eleven poems in the "milestone selection of modernist Canadian verse," New Provinces, edited by F.R. Scott and A.J.M. Smith. [4] "Mr. Mr. Finch is an intellectual poet," Smith wrote in 1939 .
James Crerar Reaney, OC FRSC (September 1, 1926 – June 11, 2008) was a Canadian poet, playwright, librettist, and professor, [1] "whose works transform small-town Ontario life into the realm of dream and symbol."