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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.
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"
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."
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.
John Thompson (17 Mar 1938 – 26 Apr 1976) was an English-born, Canadian poet, translator and university professor. He is noted for his mastery of poetic forms, which he used to express the intensity and power of images in spare and precise language evoking beauty and wonder, anguish and despair.
Marie-Célie Agnant (born 1953), Haitian native living in Canada since 1970; novelist, poet and writer of children's books Neil Aitken (born 1974), poet, editor, and translator Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm (born 1965), Anishinaabe writer and poet from the Chippewas of Nawash First Nation, founder (in 1993) of Kegedonce Press , specializing in ...
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 ...
He was the co-founder and a manuscript reader for Brick Books ., one of Canada's leading poetry presses, and was editor of the literary journal The Fiddlehead from 1991 to 1996. He has participated in the Sage Hill Writing experience in Saskatchewan and was Associate Director for poetry at the Banff Centre for the Arts Writing Studio.