Poet Laureate Map of Canada
How many poets laureate have been appointed throughout Canada so far?

33 including past and present laureates.
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2010 Griffin Poetry Prize Winners

2010 Canadian and International winners of the tenth annual Griffin Poetry Prize. [details]
You don't have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
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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

Dennis Lee

Dennis Lee

First Poet Laureate of Toronto, Ontario
  2001 - 2004

Dennis Lee has written twenty-one books, his most recent being Yesno (Anansi, 2007), the companion to Un. His Civil Elegies won the Governor General’s Literary Award, and his children’s poetry is read around the world. He is also a noted essayist, song lyricist, and editor, and was the co-founder of Anansi in 1967. He lives in Toronto.

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