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Bushed• Published in the collection Ghost in the Wheels: Selected Poems in 1977.• Tells about the interaction of man with nature.• Indicates the transformati...
I've long been a fan of Earle Birney's heartbreaking epic and have always wanted to record it. Adding the sound effects and graphics also let me reacquaint myself with the editing program...
The poem conveys a sense of awe at the city's lights, but also a tension between the human and natural worlds. Birney's use of contrast creates a complex and evocative image, capturing the beauty and fragility of human creation within the vastness of the universe.
29 sie 2012 · Earle Birney 's first collection, David and Other Poems (1942), won the Governor-General's Literary Award for poetry and received strong praise from such reviewers as E.J. Pratt and Northrop Frye.
Dubbed “a chronicler of Canada,” Earle Birney was regarded as one of the country’s finest poets. Fred Cogswell wrote: “Earle Birney, more than any other I poet know, is typical in thought and outlook of the average liberal-minded Canadian. ...
His Collected Poems appeared in 1975. Birney’s later works include the poetry collections Ghost in the Wheels (1977), The Mammoth Corridors (1980), Copernican Fix (1985), and Last Makings (1991), as well as several radio plays.
His love poems, found in LAST MAKINGS and in THE COLLECTED POEMS OF EARLE BIRNEY, are among the most beautiful in the language. Earle both climbed and was a mountain. He cast a very long shadow and he was central in shaping modern Canadian literature.
