(Alfred) Earle Birney - Bibliography, Discography, Reference

Poet, playwright, novelist, and teacher, born in Calgary, Alberta, W Canada. He was best known as a poet, having produced over 20 books of verse. His first collection, David and Other Poems (1942) and Now is Time (1945) both won the Governor-General's Award. His novel Turvey (1949) won the Stephen Leacock Medal, and in 1953 he received the Lorne Pierce Medal for Literature. He also founded the first creative writing department in the country, at the University of British Columbia.

Earle Alfred Birney, OC , Ph.D , FRSC (13 May 1904 – 3 September 1995) was a distinguished Canadian poet and twice winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature (for David and Other Poems, 1942, and for Now Is Time, 1945).

Bibliography

David and Other Poems - 1942 Now Is Time - 1945 The Straight of Anian - 1948 Turvey - 1949 Trail of a City and Other Verse - 1952 Twentieth Century Canadian Poetry - 1953 (editor) Down the Long Table - 1955 Ice Cod Bell or Stone - 1962 Near False Creek Mouth - 1964 The Creative Writer - 1966 Selected Poems: 1940-1966 - 1966 Memory No Servant - 1968 pnomes jukollages & other stunzas - 1969 The Poems of Earle Birney - 1969 Rag & Bone Shop - 1971 The Cow Jumped Over the Moon - 1972 The Bear on the Delhi Road - 1973 what's so big about GREEN? - 1973 Collected Poems - 1975 Alphabeings and Other Seasyours - 1976 The Rugging and the Moving Times - 1976 Ghost in the Wheels - 1977 Big Bird in the Bush - 1978 Fall by Fury & Other Makings - 1978 Spreading Time - 1980 Words on Waves - 1985 Essays on Chaucerian Irony - 1985 Copernican Fix - 1986 Last Makings - 1991 One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems - 2006 (edited by Sam Solecki)

Discography

Celebration: Famous Canadian Poets on CD Canadian Poetry Association (with Irving Layton) 2001 ISBN 1552530299

Reference

Elspeth Cameron.