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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.
12 cze 2010 · Cole reads "David" by Earle Birney. This poem has meant a lot to me for many years now so I just thought I'd share it with you. seracs: large pointed masses of ice in a glacier isolated...
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.
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.
Here’s a brief essay by Diné poet Orlando White about using space on the page in poetry to “express a silence.” Compare the myth of Prometheus with Birney’s telling of what became of him. Here’s a (daytime) view of the downtown Vancouver skyline in 1939, thought to be the year Birney wrote his poem. Now imagine the sun setting on ...
