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Wong's poetry often addresses her relationship with land and local watersheds. Her poems show a close connection with nature and a support for local product, while expressing distaste for genetically modified foods. In forage, her poem 'the girl who ate rice almost every day' encourages the reader to look up Monsanto in the US patent database ...
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.
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 ...
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.
These inspirational nature quotes from writers, artists, and conservationists will breathe sunshine and fresh air into your day. 60 nature quotes that capture the beauty of our earth Skip to main ...
After arriving in Canada, at the age of 5, Kaur began reading, drawing, writing poetry, and painting because she could not speak English and struggled to make friends. [8] Kaur eventually learned English by the fourth grade and credited her love for spoken word poetry to community open microphone nights. [7]
William Wilfred Campbell was born around 1 June circa 1860 in Berlin, Canada West, now Kitchener, Ontario. [nb 1] [5] [6] His father, Rev. Thomas Swainston Campbell, was an Anglican clergyman who had been assigned the task of setting up several frontier parishes in "Canada West", as Ontario was then called.
Governor General's Awards for the best Canadian fiction, poetry, non-fiction, drama, and translation, in both English and French; Griffin Poetry Prize for the best book of poetry, one award each for a Canadian poet and an international poet; Indigenous Voices Awards for works of literature by First Nations, Métis and Inuit writers