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Author: Milton Acorn

Apr 1995

	Dig up My Heart Poems by Milton Acorn, McClelland & Stewart/Tundra Books pages $16.99 PT ISBN: 0771000030		Spells for Clear Vision by Neile Graham, pages $11.95 TP ISBN: 0919626742		Hologram A Book of Glosas by P. K. Page, 72 pages $14 TP ISBN: 0919626807
	Scars of Light by Beth Goobie, pages $13.95 TP ISBN: 0920897738		Lapsed W. A. S. P. Poems, 1978-89 by Victor Coleman, 128 pages $12 TP ISBN: 155022221X		Reconcilable Differences The Changing Face of Poetry by Canadian Men since 1970 by Christopher Levenson, 171 pages $0 TC ISBN: 1896209041

Brief Reviews - Poetry
by Marlene Cookshaw
'Hologram' is a rare combination of elegance and honesty, the work of an exacting writer, a fine thinker, and a warm human being. Read more...

Apr 2003

The Edge of Home Milton Acorn from the Island
by Milton Acorn. Edited by Anne Compton
Island Studies Press
121 pages $15.95 paper
ISBN: 091901335X

No Man is an Island
by Harold Heft
The canonization of Milton Acorn is long overdue. Undeniably, he is among the most original, impassioned and politically engaged poets in Canadian literary history. Best known today as "The People's Poet" (a term coined in protest by his fellow poets after his 1969 volume I've Tasted My Blood failed to win the Governor General's Award), Acorn built his reputation in the 1960s and '70s as a poet representative of the impoverished, marginal and disenfranchised in Canada. Read more...

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