Rodney J. Anderson (born 15 April 1935) is a
Canadian
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poet
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,
musician
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and
Chartered Accountant. After spending decades living in Toronto, he currently lives in
Cobourg, Ontario
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with his wife, Merike Lugus.
Born in
Toronto
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, Ontario, Rod Anderson graduated from the
University of Toronto
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in 1956 with a Chemistry degree. In 1959, he would be designated a Chartered Accountant. After a career in accounting he turned to poetry and eventually music composition.
In 1988 he won in the poetry category in a competition by ''Cross-Canada Writers' Quarterly'' (). His poems have been anthologized in The Antigonish Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Cross-Canada Writers' Magazine, DIS-EASE, Fiddlehead, Germination,
''Grain'', Implosion, Matrix, Museletter, Poetry Canada Review,
Poetry Toronto, Quarry Magazine, Toronto Life, The
Toronto Sun
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, Waves, and Zymergy and in three anthologies: Garden Varieties, The Dry Wells of India, and More Garden Varieties. He has written two opera librettos for the
Canadian Opera Company
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, including ''Dulcitius'', performed by the COC ensemble in 1988 and a three-act opera ''Mario and the Magician'', with music by
Harry Somers
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Somers earned the unofficial title of "Darling of Canadian Composition." He was a founding member of the Canadian League of Composers (CLC) a ...
performed at the
Elgin Theatre,
Toronto
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in 1992. Rod is a member of the Canadian League of Poets.
Works
* 1966: ''Analytical Auditing'' (co-author with R.M. Skinner; Pitman)
* 1977: ''The External Audit'' (Pitman)
* 1979: ''Dollar-Unit Sampling'' (co-author with Donald A. Lselie, Albert D. Teitlebaum; Copp Clark),
* 1989: ''Sky Falling Sunny Tomorrow'', (Wolsak and Wynn)
Journal articles
*Discussion of Considerations in Choosing Statistical Sampling Procedures in Auditing. R. J. Anderson, Donald A. Leslie. Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 13, Studies on Statistical Methodology in Auditing (1975), pp. 53–64
See also
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Canadian literature
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Canadian poetry
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List of Canadian poets
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* Mark Abley (born 1955), poet, journalist, editor, and non-fiction writer.
* Milton Acorn (1923–1986), poet, writer, and playwright
* José Ac ...
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List of Canadian writers
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References
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*Canadian Literature, Issue No. 129, Summer, 1991 – Review by Bert Almon of ''Sky Falling Sunny Tomorrow'' (review not available online, but see the issue's table of contents at http://www.canlit.ca/archive/archive1959-1999/cl_129.html )
External links
Rod Anderson official website
1935 births
Living people
20th-century Canadian poets
20th-century Canadian male writers
Canadian accountants
Canadian male poets
People from Cobourg
Poets from Toronto
University of Toronto alumni
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