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Patrick White (September l5, l948 / Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada)
Former poet laureate of Ottawa. Eight books of poetry: Poems (Soft Press) , God in the Rafters, (Borealis) , Stations (Commoner’s Books) , Homage to Victor Jara, (Steel Rail Press) , Seventeen Odes, (Fiddlehead Books) , Orpheus on Highbeam, (Anthos Books) , Habitable Planets, New and Selected Poems, (Cormorant Books) , and The Benjamin Chee Chee Elegies, (General Store Publishing) . His work has ... more »
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- I Should Lie In The Sun And Melt Into Th... -new-
- Unlost When I'm Writing -new-
- Paid The Rent -new-
- A Thing Is Adapted To Its Fate -new-
- Undevoted, Free, And Wild -new-
- I See You In The Eyes Of The Rain -new-
- And It Shall No More Be Given To Me -new-
- It's Good To Know -new-
- Deep In The Night -new-
- It Isn't That I'm Looking -new-
- I'll Wear This Robe -new-
- Just Before The Air Went Radioactive Aga... -new-
- Someone To Rejoice In -new-
- Seeds Of Fire In A Nightsky -new-
Popular Poems
- A Canadian Poet Since You Asked
- A Creed For The Desperate
- A Day Of Writing
- A Fluctuation In The Cosmic Void
- A Haze Of Dust On The Windowpanes
- A Thing Is Adapted To Its Fate -new-
- A Whole Galaxy Lights Up
- After You Leave
- All Day The Sun
- All That I Could Wish For You
- Amazing As The Stars In The Darkness My ...
- Among The Skeletons Of The Sundials -new-
- And I Don't Know If I Succeed
- And I Love It Out Here
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These are the masterpieces - reused text at times but still masterpieces, reminiscent language of the greats