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Earle Alfred Birney (13 May 1904 – 3 September 1995) was a distinguished Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honor, for his poetry.

Born in Calgary, Alberta, and raised on a farm in Erickson, near Creston, British Columbia, his childhood was somewhat isolated. After working as a farm hand, a bank clerk, and a park ranger, Birney ... more »

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  • ''a fuzzed moth in a flannel of storm''
    Earle Birney (b. 1904), Canadian poet. Bushed (l. 9). . . New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English, The. Margaret Atwood, comp. (1982) Oxford ...
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  • ''owls in the beardusky woods''
    Earle Birney (b. 1904), Canadian poet. Bushed (l. 22). . . New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English, The. Margaret Atwood, comp. (1982) Oxford...
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  • ''ospreys
    would fall like valkyries''
    Earle Birney (b. 1904), Canadian poet. Bushed (l. 15-16). . . New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English, The. Margaret Atwood, comp. (1982) Oxf...
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  • ''Unreal, tall as a myth,''
    Earle Birney (b. 1904), Canadian poet. The Bear on the Delhi Road (l. 1). . . New Oxford Book of Canadian Verse in English, The. Margaret Atwood, ...
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