Rodney J. Anderson (born 15 April 1935) is a
Canadian poet,
musician
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and
Chartered Accountant. After spending decades living in Toronto, he currently lives in
Cobourg, Ontario with his wife, Merike Lugus.
Born in
Toronto,
Ontario, Rod Anderson graduated from the
University of Toronto 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, 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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performed at the
Elgin Theatre The Elgin Theatre can refer to:
* Elgin Theatre (Ottawa) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, a former movie cinema that was the first twin cinema in North America
* Elgin and Winter Garden Theatres, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
* Elgin Theater, a former mov ...
,
Toronto 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
*
Canadian poetry
Canadian poetry is poetry of or typical of Canada. The term encompasses poetry written in Canada or by Canadian people in the official languages of English and French, and an increasingly prominent body of work in both other European and Indigenou ...
*
List of Canadian poets
*
List of Canadian writers
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
Writers from Toronto
University of Toronto alumni
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