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ECW’s Biographical Guide to Canadian Poets

Jack David Robert Lecker Ellen Quigley

9781550221527
282 pages
Ecw Press
Overview
This in-depth collection includes biographies of Milton Acorn, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Avison, Earle Birney, bill bissett, George Bowering, William Wilfred Campbell, Bliss Carman, Leonard Cohen, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Louis Dudek, Robert Finch, Ralph Gustafson, Charles Heavysege, D. G. Jones, Leo Kennedy, A. M. Klein, Raymond Knister, Robert Kroetsch, Archibald Lampman, Patrick Lane, Irving Layton, Dennis Lee, Dorothy Livesay, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Jay Macpherson, Eli Mandel, Daphne Marlatt, Charles Mair, John Newlove, bpNichol, Alden Nowlan, Michael Ondaatje, P. K. Page, E. J. Pratt, Al Purdy,James Reaney, Charles G. D. Roberts, Joe Rosenblatt, W.W.E. Ross, Charles Sangster, D. C. Scott, F. R. Scott, A. J. M. Smith, Raymond Souster, Miriam Waddington, Phyllis Webb, and Anne Wilkinson.
Author Bio
Jack David is an editor and the co-founder and co-publisher of ECW Press. He lives in Toronto, Ontario. Robert Lecker FRSC is a Canadian scholar, author, and Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University, where he specializes in Canadian literature. He received the H. Noel Fieldhouse Award for Distinguished Teaching at McGill University in 1996. Lecker is a leading authority on Canadian literature. Ellen Quigley is a Canadian writer and editor.