Poet Laureate Map of Canada
What is the term of a poet laureate.

From one year to a lifetime. Most often the term is for two or three years.
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2010 Griffin Poetry Prize Winners

2010 Canadian and International winners of the tenth annual Griffin Poetry Prize. [details]
Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.
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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

David Helwig

David Helwig

Poet Laureate of Prince Edward Island
  2008 - 2009

David Helwig was born in Toronto in 1938. He has lived in PEI since 1996. His first book of poetry was published in 1967. His thirteenth, The Sway of Otherwise, will appear from Oberon in 2008. He has won the CBC Poetry Award and the Atlantic Poetry Award. He has also published several volumes of fiction.

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