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2000 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Griffin Poetry Prize is established, with one award given each year for the best work by a Canadian poet and one award given for best work in the English language internationally. * February — Janice Mirikitani succeeds Lawrence Ferlinghetti as San Francisco's Poet Laureate * April 17 - New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman appoints poet Gerald Stern to be the first Poet Laureate of New Jersey * October 3 — Edward Lear's "The Owl and the Pussycat" named Britain's favorite children's poem in a BBC poll * October 3 — Justin Trudeau quotes from Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods" at the funeral of his father, former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau * October 4 — National Poetry Day in Great Britain: 300 school children at the Royal Festival Hall along with 4,000 other people nationwide perform Agbabi's "Word," setting a new Guinnes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pandaemonium (movie)
''Pandaemonium'' is a 2000 film, directed by Julien Temple, screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce. It is based on the early lives of English poets Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, in particular their collaboration on the ''Lyrical Ballads'' (1798), and Coleridge's writing of ''Kubla Khan'' (completed in 1797, published in 1816). Much of the film was shot on location on and around the Quantock Hills in Somerset. Cast * Linus Roache as Samuel Taylor Coleridge * John Hannah as William Wordsworth * Samantha Morton as Sara Fricker Coleridge (Coleridge's wife) * Emily Woof as Dorothy Wordsworth * Samuel West as Robert Southey * Andy Serkis as John Thelwall * Andrea Lowe as Edith Southey * Clive Merrison as Dr. Gillman Reception Release dates Accolades "It's rattling good stuff. There's just one small objection. None of it ever happened. This is fantasy literary history". John Sutherland. References External links ''Pandaemonium''at Box Office Mojo ''Pand ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Elliott Clarke
George Elliott Clarke (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015 and as the Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate in 2016-2017. Clarke's work addresses the experiences and history of the Black Canadian communities of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, creating a cultural geography coined "Africadia." Life Clarke was born to William and Geraldine Clarke in Windsor, Nova Scotia, near the Black Loyalist community of Three Mile Plains and grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He graduated from Queen Elizabeth High School in 1978. He earned a BA honours degree in English from the University of Waterloo (1984), an MA degree in English from Dalhousie University (1989) and a PhD degree in English from Queen's University (1993). He has received honorary degrees from Dalhousie University ( LL.D.), the University of New Brunswick ( Litt.D.), the University of Alberta (Litt.D.), the University of Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Christakos
Margaret Christakos (born 1962 in Sudbury, Ontario) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. Life Christakos was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario. She is a Canadian poet, fiction author, literary essayist and creative writing instructor. Since 1989, she has published ten collections of poetry, a novel, an intergenre memoir including photography, numerous chapbooks and has appeared in a diverse range of literary journals and anthologies. Christakos received her B.F.A. in Visual Arts from York University in 1985. She lived in Montreal from 1985 to 1987, settling in Toronto in 1988. She went on to pursue an M.A. in Education from OISE in the History and Philosophy of Education in 1995. Christakos held a teaching position at OCAD from 1992 to 1997. From 2004 to 2005 she was the University of Windsor's Canada Council Writer in Residence. Additionally, she worked under PEN Canada in the political interests of exiled writers and has contributed to numerous poetry publications and eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coach House Books
Coach House Books is an independent book publishing company located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Coach House publishes experimental poetry, fiction, drama and non-fiction. The press is particularly interested in writing that pushes at the boundaries of convention. History The company was founded as Coach House Press in 1965 by artist Stan Bevington. It is known for publishing early works by writers such as Fred Wah, Daphne Marlatt, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Ann-Marie MacDonald, George Bowering, Nicole Brossard, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Christopher Dewdney, bpNichol and Anne Michaels, Darren O'Donnell, Sean Dixon, Greg MacArthur, Matthew Heiti, and Amiel Gladstone. Coach House was at the centre of a number of innovations in the use of digital technology in publishing and printing, from computerized phototypesetting to desktop publishing. Notably, the pioneering SGML/XML company, SoftQuad, was founded by Coach House's Stan Bevington and colleagues Yuri Rubinsky and David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clint Burnham
Clint Burnham (born 1962 in Comox, British Columbia) is a Canadian writer and academic. He published the poetry collections ''Be Labour Reading'' (1997) and ''Buddyland'' (2000), and the short story collection ''Airborne Photo'' (1999), before publishing his debut novel ''Smoke Show'' in 2005. The novel was a shortlisted finalist for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize in 2006. He was a ReLit Award nominee in the poetry category in 2018 for ''Pound @ Guantanamo'' (2017), and in the short fiction category in 2022 for ''White Lie'' (2021). He has also published the poetry collections ''Rental Van'' (2007) and ''The Benjamin Sonnets'' (2009), and numerous academic non-fiction works on literature, art and architecture. He is a professor of English at Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a Public university, public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It maintains three campuses in Greater Vancouver, respectively located in Burnaby (main campus), Surre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadian Literature
Canadian literature is written in several languages including Canadian English, English, Canadian French, French, and various Indigenous Canadian languages. It is often divided into French- and English-language literatures, which are rooted in the literary traditions of France and Britain, respectively. The earliest Canadian narratives were of travel and exploration. Indigenous literatures Indigenous peoples of Canada are culturally diverse. Each group has its own literature, language and culture. The term "Indigenous literature" therefore can be misleading, as writer Jeannette Armstrong states in one interview, "I would stay away from the idea of "Native" literature, there is no such thing. There is Mohawk people, Mohawk literature, there is Okanagan people, Okanagan literature, but there is no generic Native in Canada". French-Canadian literature In 1802, the Lower Canada legislative library was founded. All books it contained were subsequently moved to the Canadian parlia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Poetry
American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the Constitution of the United States, constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although a strong oral tradition often likened to poetry already existed among Native Americans in the United States, Native American societies). Most of the early colonists' work was similar to contemporary English models of Meter (poetry), poetic form, diction, and Theme (literary), theme. However, in the 19th century, an American Common parlance, idiom began to emerge. By the later part of that century, List of poets from the United States, poets like Walt Whitman were winning an enthusiastic audience abroad and had joined the English-language ''avant-garde''. Much of the American poetry published between 1910 and 1945 remains lost in the pages of small circulation political periodicals, particularly the ones o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pain Not Bread
Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage." Pain motivates organisms to withdraw from damaging situations, to protect a damaged body part while it heals, and to avoid similar experiences in the future. Congenital insensitivity to pain may result in reduced life expectancy. Most pain resolves once the noxious stimulus is removed and the body has healed, but it may persist despite removal of the stimulus and apparent healing of the body. Sometimes pain arises in the absence of any detectable stimulus, damage or disease. Pain is the most common reason for physician consultation in most developed countries. It is a major symptom in many medical conditions, and can interfere with a person's quality of life and general functioning. People in pain expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roo Borson
Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson (born January 20, 1952, in Berkeley, California) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. After undergraduate studies at UC Santa Barbara and Goddard College, she received an MFA from the University of British Columbia. She has received many awards for her work, including the Governor General's Literary Award, 2004, and the Griffin Poetry Prize, 2005 for Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida. She currently lives in Toronto with poet Kim Maltman, and with Kim Maltman and Andy Patton is a member of the collaborative performance poetry ensemble Pain Not Bread. Works *''Landfall'' (1977), *''Rain'' (1980), *''In the Smoky Light of the Fields'' (1980), *''A Sad Device'' (1981), *''The Whole Night, Coming Home'' (1984), (nominated for a Governor General's Award) *''The Transparence of November / Snow'' (1985), (with Kim Maltman) *''Intent, or, The Weight of the World'' (1989), *''Night Walk'' (1994), (nominated for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Wicks
Les Wicks (born 15 June 1955) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has published more than fifteen books of poetry. Early life and education Wicks grew up in the western suburbs of Sydney. He studied for a Bachelor of Arts in Asian and Australian History at Macquarie University and worked at a variety of unskilled and semi-skilled jobs while living in Sydney and London. In the late 1970s, he established Meuse Press (with Bill Farrow) which mixed text and graphics. He helped set up the Poets Union of Australia in New South Wales. From the 1980s, he worked as a union industrial advocate for several unions after obtaining qualifications in Industrial Law from the University of Sydney. Selected bibliography *'' The Vanguard Sleeps In '' (Glandular, 1981) *''Cannibals'' (Rochford Street Press, 1985) *''Tickle '' ( Island Press, 1993) *''Nitty Gritty'' (Five Islands, 1997) *''The Ways of Waves'' (Sidewalk, 2000) *''Appetites of Light'' (PressPress, 2002) *''Stories of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Christopher Keith Wallace-Crabbe (born 6 May 1934) is an Australian poet and emeritus professor in the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne. Life and career Wallace-Crabbe was born in the Melbourne suburb of Richmond. His father was Kenneth Eyre Inverell Wallace-Crabbe, painter, printmaker, journalist and publisher, pilot in the RAF and ending World War II as Group Captain, and his mother Phyllis Vera May Cox Passmore was a pianist, and his brother Robin Wallace-Crabbe became an artist. He was educated at Scotch College, Yale University and the University of Melbourne, where for much of his life he has worked and is now a professor emeritus in the Australian Centre. He was Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University and at the University of Venice, Ca'Foscari. He is also an essayist, a critic of the visual arts and a notable public reader of his verse. He was the founding director of the Australian Centre and, more recently, chair of the peak arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
