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List Of Canadian Poets
This is a list of Canadian poets. Years link to corresponding " earin poetry" articles. A *Mark Abley (born 1955), poet, journalist, editor, and non-fiction writer. *Milton Acorn (1923–1986), poet, writer, and playwright * José Acquelin (born 1956) *Gil Adamson, novelist, poet, and short-story writer * Randell Adjei * 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 indigenous writers * Donald Alarie (born 1945), writer, poet, and teacher * Edna Alford, editor, author, and poet who co-founded the magazine ''Dandelion'' * Sandra Alland (born 1973), Scottish-Canadian writer, multimedia artist, bookseller, small press publisher, and activist * Donna Allard, editor and poet * Lillian All ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Abley
Mark Abley (born 13 May 1955) is a Canadian poet, journalist, editor and non-fiction writer. Both his poetry and several non-fiction books express his interest in endangered languages. He has also published numerous magazine articles. He published a memoir about his relationship with his father, ''The Organist'', in 2019. A Rhodes Scholar, Abley settled in Toronto to write full-time after returning from studies in England. He moved to Montreal in 1983, where he has since based his career. Early life Born in Warwickshire, England, Mark Abley moved to Canada with his family as a small boy, and grew up in Lethbridge, Alberta and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. His father Harry was an organist who played in churches and cinemas; he also taught the pipe organ. His father's struggle with depression (mood) is a major theme of Abley's memoir of his father, ''The Organist'' (2019). Abley attended the University of Saskatchewan, from which he won a Rhodes Scholarship in 1975. He won prizes for hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madhur Anand
Madhur Anand is a Canadian poet and professor of ecology and environmental sciences. She was born in Thunder Bay, Ontario and lives in Guelph, Ontario. Scientific career Anand completed her PhD in theoretical ecology at Western University in 1997 and conducts research on ecological change and sustainability science. Her topics of research include coupled human-environment systems and forest and forest-grassland mosaic ecosystems, and especially how sources of stress and disturbance, such as agriculture and climate change, impact these ecosystems across different spatial scales and time scales. She uses simulation modelling, statistical tools, dendrochronology, and other observational methods. She is a full professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph where she leads thGlobal Ecological Change and Sustainabilitylab. Anand has received awards including the OntariPremier's Research Excellence Awardand thfrom Western University. She was also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oana Avasilichioaei
Oana Avasilichioaei is a Canadian poet and translator. Her poetry work includes ''Expeditions of a Chimæra'' (2009), a collaboration with Erín Moure, and ''We Beasts'' (2012), which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. As a translator, she is most noted for winning the Governor General's Award for French to English translation in 2017 for ''Readopolis'', her translation of Bertrand Laverdure's ''Lectodôme''. Her poetry collection ''Eight Track'' was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2020 Governor General's Awards. In the same year she also received her second nomination for French to English translation for ''The Neptune Room'', her translation of Laverdure's ''La chambre neptune''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martine Audet
Martine Audet (born October 15, 1961) is a Canadian poet from Montreal, Quebec. She won the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry at the 2020 Governor General's Awards for her poetry collection ''La Société des cendres''. She was previously a nominee at the 2000 Governor General's Awards for ''Orbites'', at the 2007 Governor General's Awards for ''Les manivelles'', at the 2011 Governor General's Awards for ''Je demande pardon à l'espèce qui brille'' and at the 2015 Governor General's Awards for ''Tête première / Dos / Contre dos'', '' |
Charlotte Aubin
Charlotte Aubin (born September 4, 1991 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian actress from Quebec. She is most noted for her performance in the film '' Isla Blanca'', for which she received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Actress at the 20th Quebec Cinema Awards in 2018. '' La Presse'', April 10, 2018. She has also appeared in the films '' Romeo and Juliet'', '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. Atwood has won numerous awards and honors for her writing, including two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General's Award, the Franz Kafka Prize, Princess of Asturias Awards, and the National Book Critics and PEN Center USA Lifetime Achievement Awards. A number of her works have been adapted for film and television. Atwood's works encompass a variety of themes including gender and identity, religion and myth, the power of language, climate change, and "power politics". Many of her poems are inspired by myths and fairy tales which interested her from a very early a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Métis People (Canada)
The Métis ( ; Canadian ) are Indigenous peoples who inhabit Canada's three Prairie Provinces, as well as parts of British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and the Northern United States. They have a shared history and culture which derives from specific mixed European (primarily French) and Indigenous ancestry which became a distinct culture through ethnogenesis by the mid-18th century, during the early years of the North American fur trade. In Canada, the Métis, with a population of 624,220 as of 2021, are one of three major groups of Indigenous peoples that were legally recognized in the Constitution Act of 1982, the other two groups being the First Nations and Inuit. Smaller communities who self-identify as Métis exist in Canada and the United States, such as the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana. The United States recognizes the Little Shell Tribe as an Ojibwe Native American tribe. Alberta is the only Canadian province with a recognized Métis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joanne Arnott
Joanne Arnott (born 16 December 1960 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian writer. She has conducted writing workshops across much of Canada and in Australia, including a series at the Carnegie Centre, sponsored by SFU, and has written for the Literary Review of Canada. She received the Gerald Lampert Award for her 1991 collection of poetry ''Wiles of Girlhood''. Arnott lives in British Columbia with her family. She is a founding member of the Aboriginal Writers Collective West Coast and The Aunties Collective. As a member of the Alliance of Women Against Racism, Etc., she facilitated Unlearning Racism workshops for colleges, universities, government and community groups in Canada throughout the 1990s. She has served on The Writers Union of Canada National Council (2009), The Writers Trust of Canada Authors Committee, and as jury member for the Governor General's Awards/Poetry (2011). She is the Poetry Editor for ''Event Magazine''. Bibliography Poetry *''Wiles of Girlhood'' (Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Arnason
David Arnason (born 23 May 1940) is a Canadian author and poet of Icelandic heritage from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Life Born in Gimli, Manitoba, Arnason is of Icelandic descent and often writes about the Icelandic community in Canada. He is the son of Baldwin and Gudrun Arnason and the eldest of seven children. He attended the University of Manitoba where he received a B.A. (1961), a Certificate in Education (1963) and M.A. (1969), and has a PhD from the University of New Brunswick (1983-1984). Arnason co-founded the ''Journal of Canadian Fiction'' with John Moss at the University of New Brunswick in 1972. He was one of the co-founders of Queenston House Press in Winnipeg and has been an editor of Turnstone Press in Winnipeg since 1975. He was chairman of the Literary Press Group and a member of the executive of the Association of Canadian Publishers. He served on the Manitoba Arts Council 1985–1987. He was a general editor of the Macmillan Themes in Canadian Literature series. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tammy Armstrong
Tammy Lynn Armstrong (born March 26, 1974) is a Canadian poet and novelist."Tammy Lynn Armstrong" ''New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia'', 2010. She is most noted for her 2002 collection ''Bogman's Music'', which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2002 Governor General's Awards. Originally from St. Stephen, |
Jeannette Armstrong
Jeannette Christine Armstrong (born 1948 in Okanagan) is a Canadian author, educator, artist, and activist. She was born and grew up on the Penticton Indian reserve in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley, and fluently speaks both the Syilx and English language. Armstrong has lived on the Penticton Native Reserve for most of her life and has raised her two children there. In 2013, she was appointeCanada Research Chair in Okanagan Indigenous Knowledge and Philosophy Armstrong's 1985 work ''Slash'' is considered the first novel by a First Nations woman in Canada.Lutz, Hartmut, ed. Interview with Jeannette Armstrong. ''Contemporary Challenges: Conversations with Canadian Native Authors''. Saskatoon: Fifth House, 1991. 13 Armstrong is Syilx Okanagan. Her mother, Lilly Louie, was from Kettle Falls and belonged to the Kettle River people, and Armstrong's father belonged to the mountain people who lived in the Okanagan Valley. As an Okanagan person, the land is intrinsically part of her i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Andre
Michael Andre (born August 31, 1946) is a Canadian, disc jockey, poet, critic and editor living in New York City. Andre was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to a civil engineer doing wartime work on a military hospital. His mother's father was a newspaperman, Eyton Warburton; he died when Andre was an infant. Andre was raised in Kingston, Ontario. He studied at McGill University (Honors English, B.A., 1968), the University of Chicago (M.A., 1969) and Columbia University (PhD, English and Comparative Literature, 1973). Andre hosted radio shows in Chicago and New York. He interviewed, published, and occasionally socialized with W. H. Auden and Eugene McCarthy, Beats like Gregory Corso, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, and homosexual esthetes like John Cage and Andy Warhol. He is divorced from Erika Rothenberg, an artist, and Jane Adler, a flautist and sign-language interpreter; he has a son, Benjamin Eyton Andre. Papers may be found at the University of Tulsa and at Yale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
