Poet Laureate Map of Canada
Who was the first provincial or territorial poet laureate?

PJ Johnson was formally invested as the Yukon Territory’s first Poet Laureate on July 1, 1994.

Glen Sorestad, poet and publisher, was named Poet Laureate of the Province of Saskatchewan in 2000.
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Gary Hyland 1940-2011

Gary Hyland passed away Tuesday, April 5, 2011, surrounded by the love of his family and friends. [details]
The urge to 'tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it' lessens when poetry arises freshly each day.
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Poet Laureate Map of Canada

Map pj johnson, Poet Laureate of the Yukon Roland Pemberton - Poet Laureate of Edmonton, Alberta Poet Laureate of Newfoundland: Agnes Walsh Douglas Lochhead, Sackville, New Brunswick Shauntay Grant - Poet Laureate of Halifax, Nova Scotia Pierre DesRuisseaux - Parliamentary Poet Laureate - Ottawa Hugh MacDonald, Prince Edward Island Saskatchewan Poets Laureate Ontario Poets Laureate Ontario Poets Laureate British Columbia Poets Laureate

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Gary Hyland 1940-2011
Gary Hyland passed away Tuesday, April 5, 2011, surrounded by the love of his family and friends.
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Douglas G Lochhead 1922 - 2011
Douglas Grant Lochhead, age 88, of Sackville, passed away peacefully at the Drew Nursing Home on Tuesday, March 15, 2011.
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Saskatoon's Don Kerr named Saskatchewan's New Poet Laureate!
Don Kerr is the author of numerous poetry collections, plays, and short stories.
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Words Aloud invites you to experience the spoken word!
The Words Aloud Documentary
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Catch the Wave!
The Spoken Word/Slam Program
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PEN Canada's 25th anniversary
It's PEN Canada's 25th anniversary, and we want to thank you for supporting our work.
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Library Announces Kristan Anderson as Owen Sound Poet Laureate
The Owen Sound & North Grey Union Public Library is pleased to announce that local spoken word poet Kristan Anderson has been selected as Owen Sound Poet Laureate 2009-2010.
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Congratulations to Don McKay
Congratulations to Don McKay of St. John’s, Newfoundland
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Former Poet Laureate Celebrated PEI's Heritage
Writer, teacher and former Prince Edward Island poet laureate Frank Ledwell died Aug. 14, 2008, in Charlottetown. His work celebrated the heritage and life of Prince Edward Island.
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Poet Laureate Plants Trees
As Poet Laureate of Brantford, and as a participant in Random Acts of Poetry, John B. Lee has planted four Poet Trees in the City of Brantford, each one dedicated to a poet from Ontario.
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Britain's Poet Laureate Has Writer's Block
British poet laureate Andrew Motion is planning to resign next year. And while he has long professed his desire to leave the lifetime appointment early, he is more anxious than ever to get back to living without the laurels. Motion, it seems, has developed a nasty case of writer's block and describes his time as poet laureate as having been "very, very damaging" to his work. "I dried up completely about five years ago," he told the British newspaper The Guardian, "and can't write anything except to commission."
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