The range of poetry today is extremely wide, isn't it. From traditional
balladists to multimedia artists. Poetry has never been clearly defined, but
in this day and age it is ever more difficult - if you wanted to define,
that is. Personally, the range delight me as it echoes my range of moods and
receptivitiy to various styles. Just rambling ... Gabe pointed up Mez Breeze
on my blog. She's a multimedia artist/poet. Very much out there. Take a look
...
Andrew
On 29/01/2008, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> 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:
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> > Poet, novelist and essayist David Helwig has been named poet
> > laureate for
> > Prince Edward Island.
> >
> > Any comment, Doug?
> >
> > --
> > Andrew
> > http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/aburke/
> >
>
> Douglas Barbour
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> http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/
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> Latest book: Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>
> & luckily people don't love us
> for our virtue or
> we'd be in a bad way.
>
> Graham Greene
>
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Andrew
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