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Showing posts with label A.J.M. Smith. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A.J.M. Smith. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Biographies of Poets, Whitman and Smith

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Mickle Street  One of my favourite biographies of Whitman is Walt Whitman in Mickle Street (1921) by Elizabeth Leavitt Keller de...
Tuesday, February 13, 2024

"The Lonely Land" by A.J.M. Smith

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  Cedar and jagged fir uplift sharp barbs against the gray and cloud-piled sky; and in the bay blown spume and windrift and thin, bitter spr...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Some Notes on E.K. Brown

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E.K. Brown, a study in conflict,  Laura Smyth Groening,  U niversity of Toronto Press (1993) A while ago I read Laura Smyth Groenin...
Saturday, December 19, 2020

Thoughts on F.R. Scott

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F or the last six months I've been reading my way through the Montreal Group of poets who helped bring modernism in poetry to Canada bac...
Saturday, June 13, 2020

Four Poems by Montreal Poets

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The Improved Binoculars by Irving Layton Below me the city was in flames: the firemen were the first to save themselv...
Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Four Crow Poems, A.J.M. Smith, P.K. Page, and Glen Sorestad,

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The Crows A.J.M. Smith Over the pines the crows Are crying and calling out With a hollow brazen throat In a tongue that no man ...
Monday, April 6, 2020

"My Lost Youth" by A.J.M. Smith

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Westmount Park, around 1920 My Lost Youth  by A.J.M. Smith I remember it was April that year, and afternoon. There was a modish od...
Tuesday, September 17, 2019

A poets' body of work: how much is too much, how much is too little?

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One of complaints made by critics about A.J.M. Smith is that his body of published work is too small for him to be considered an imp...
Monday, July 15, 2019

A Reappraisal of A.J.M. Smith

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"And the classic shade/ Of cedar and pine..."                                              1. Some people may think i...