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Earle Alfred Birney, OC , Ph.D , FRSC (13 May 1904 – 3 September 1995) was a distinguished Canadian poet and twice winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature (for David and Other Poems, 1942, and for Now Is Time, 1945). Seal of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means (those) desiring a better country. ...
Doctor of Philosophy (from Greek , meaning Teacher of Philosophy), typically abbreviated Ph. ...
The Royal Society of Canada, (French: La Société royale du Canada) The Canadian Academy of the Sciences and Humanities, is the senior national body of distinguished Canadian scientists and scholars. ...
May 13 is the 133rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (134th in leap years). ...
Year 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ...
September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Since their creation in 1937, the Governor Generals Literary Awards have become one of Canadas most prestigious prizes, awarded in both French and English in seven categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Drama, Childrens Literature-Text, Childrens Literature-Illustration, and Translation. ...
Born in Calgary, Alberta, and raised on a farm in Erickson, British Columbia, his childhood was somewhat isolated. After working as a farm hand, a bank clerk, and a park ranger, he went on to college to study chemical engineering but graduated with a degree in English. He studied at the University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, University of California, Berkeley and University of London. Calgary is a city in the province of Alberta, Canada. ...
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Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the application of physical science, e. ...
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university with its main campus located at Point Grey, in the University Endowment Lands adjacent to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and another smaller campus known as UBC Okanagan located in Kelowna, British Columbia. ...
The University of Toronto (U of T) is a coeducational public research university in Toronto, Ontario. ...
The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ...
The University of London is a university based primarily in London. ...
Through a brief and quickly annulled marriage to Sylvia Johnston, he was introduced to Trotskyism. In the 1930s he was an active Trotskyist in Canada and Britain but drifted away from the movement during World War II. During the conflict he served as a personnel officer in the Canadian Army, which was also the occupation of the main character of his novel, Turvey (1949). Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ...
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Canadian Forces Land Force Command (LF) is responsible for army operations within the Canadian Armed Forces. ...
In 1970 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Seal of the Order of Canada The Order of Canada is Canadas highest civilian honour, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the Orders Latin motto Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which means (those) desiring a better country. ...
Bibliography
- David and Other Poems - 1942
- Now Is Time - 1945
- The Straight of Anian - 1948
- Turvey - 1949
- Trail of a City and Other Verse - 1952
- Twentieth Century Canadian Poetry - 1953 (editor)
- Down the Long Table - 1955
- Ice Cod Bell or Stone - 1962
- Near False Creek Mouth - 1964
- The Creative Writer - 1966
- Selected Poems: 1940-1966 - 1966
- Memory No Servant - 1968
- pnomes jukollages & other stunzas - 1969
- The Poems of Earle Birney - 1969
- Rag & Bone Shop - 1971
- The Cow Jumped Over the Moon - 1972
- The Bear on the Delhi Road - 1973
- what's so big about GREEN? - 1973
- Collected Poems - 1975
- Alphabeings and Other Seasyours - 1976
- The Rugging and the Moving Times - 1976
- Ghost in the Wheels - 1977
- Big Bird in the Bush - 1978
- Fall by Fury & Other Makings - 1978
- Spreading Time - 1980
- Words on Waves - 1985
- Essays on Chaucerian Irony - 1985
- Copernican Fix - 1986
- Last Makings - 1991
- One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems - 2006 (edited by Sam Solecki)
Discography The Canadian Poetry Association was begun as an alternative to the League of Canadian Poets. ...
Irving Layton OC (March 12, 1912 – January 4, 2006) was a Canadian poet. ...
Reference Elspeth Cameron. Earle Birney: A Life. Toronto: Viking, 1994. ISBN 0-670-82874-2 Elspeth MacGegor Cameron (born 1943) is a Canadian writer most known for her biographies of noted Canadian literary figures such as Hugh MacLennan, Irving Layton, Earle Birney, and Robertson Davies. ...
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