Author: Milton Acorn
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Apr 1995
Brief Reviews - Poetry by Marlene Cookshaw 'Hologram' is a rare combination of elegance and honesty, the work of an exacting writer, a fine thinker, and a warm human being. Read more...
| Apr 2003
No Man is an Island by Harold Heft
The canonization of Milton Acorn is long overdue. Undeniably, he is among the most original, impassioned and politically engaged poets in Canadian literary history. Best known today as "The People's Poet" (a term coined in protest by his fellow poets after his 1969 volume I've Tasted My Blood failed to win the Governor General's Award), Acorn built his reputation in the 1960s and '70s as a poet representative of the impoverished, marginal and disenfranchised in Canada. Read more...
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