Poet Laureate Map of Canada
How many poets laureate have been appointed throughout Canada so far?

33 including past and present laureates.
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2010 Griffin Poetry Prize Winners

2010 Canadian and International winners of the tenth annual Griffin Poetry Prize. [details]
Always I am amazed at what we tell, how much faith we put in it. Never really knowing who is listening, how they're going to take it, where.
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Poet Laureate Map of Canada

Map Candice James - Poet Laureate of New Westminster, B.C. Roger Nash, Sudbury, Ontario Jill Battson, Cobourg, Ontario pj johnson, Poet Laureate of the Yukon Kristan Anderson, Owen Sound Ontario Roland Pemberton - Poet Laureate of Edmonton, AlbertaBrad Cran - Poet Laureate of Vancouver, B.C. Poet Laureate of Newfoundland: Agnes Walsh Linda Rogers - Poet Laureate of Victoria, B.C. Douglas Lochhead, Sackville, New Brunswick Shauntay Grant - Poet Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia John B. Lee, Brantford Ontario Dionne Brand, Toronto, Ontario Pierre DesRuisseaux - Parliamentary Poet Laureate - Ottawa Hugh MacDonald, Prince Edward Island Robert Currie, Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan Gary Hyland, Poet Laureate, City of Moose Jaw, SK Poet Laureate of Cobalt Ann Margetson

Poet Laureate Map of Canada

Welcome to the Poet Laureate Map of Canada. This may very well be a world first. There are literary maps and poet maps, but we haven’t yet found a poet laureate map. Our map features a photo, bio and poem from Canada’s laureates, past and present, as well as links, and when available, audio and video files.

My initial reasons for producing the map were to showcase Canada’s poet laureates – municipal, provincial and federal - and to provide models for communities that want to have a poet laureate.

We welcome additions to the map - such as newly appointed or left out laureates (we’ve discovered 30 so far), as well as other suggestions or comments. Send us an email  to share your ideas.

I encourage you to find a way to insert poetry into the everyday.  Feast on these poems. Follow the links. Share them with your community, for poetry is truly a community beyond borders.

I hope this map will also provide a conversation among poetries, helping us to share the songs of our species. In my community, Owen Sound  City Council members will each read a poet laureate’s poem at Council meetings.

Elizabeth  Zetlin
Poet Laureate, 2007 - 2009
City of Owen Sound, Ontario

 

feature poet

John B.  Lee

Poet Laureate of Brantford, Ontario
2005 -
John is the recipient of over sixty prestigious international awards for his writing he is winner of the $10,000 CBC Literary Award for Poetry, the only two time recipient of the People’s Poetry Award, and 2006 winner of the inaugural Souwesto Orison Writing Award (University of Windsor).
John has well-over fifty books published to date and is the editor of seven anthologies.

John B.  Lee

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