Hey, you keep finding things out that I know nothing about, Andrew.
We had a couple of poets laureate visiting here last week, from
Halifax & St John's. There are around 19 in Canada now.
I knew David back in Kingston when I was doing my PhD there in the 60s
& he was a young lecturer at Queen's. He writes a lot. mostly trad
lyrics, uses history in many of his more narrative poems, & while I
have read a lot of his earlier work, some with pleasure, it does not
tend to call me back as the writing I truly love does. His Selected
Poems of some year ago (1982! whew, a long time ago) was titled The
Rain Falls Like Rain, & the prologue poem, with that line as
conclusion, I liked a lot, for the way it undermined the simile.
He's been living in PEI for some time now, I think.
Doug
On 27-Jan-08, at 5:34 PM, andrew burke wrote:
> Poet, novelist and essayist David Helwig has been named poet
> laureate for
> Prince Edward Island.
>
> Any comment, Doug?
>
> --
> Andrew
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