::Arc Poetry::Mag::Arc 58: Summer 2007::

Canada’s Forgotten and Neglected Issue

Launch Saturday, June 23rd, 5pm at the Manx Pub in Ottawa

Our Lost Poets: Bring them back — an introduction by co-editors Anita Lahey and Matthew Holmes

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Who are these lost and found poets?

Louise Morey Bowman 1882-1944, a rediscovered Canadian poet
Avi Boxer 1932-1987, a rediscovered Canadian poet
Audrey Alexandra Brown 1904-1998, a rediscovered Canadian poet
Cheng Sait Chia 1940-1981, a rediscovered Canadian poet
Philip Child 1898-1978 , a rediscovered Canadian poet
James Denoon 1802-1891, a rediscovered Canadian poet
George Faludy 1910-2006, a rediscovered Canadian poet
Thomas Darcy McGee 1825-1868, a rediscovered Canadian poet
Joseph Howe 1804-1873, a rediscovered Canadian poet
Douglas Lepan 1914-1998, a rediscovered Canadian poet
Kenneth Leslie 1892-1974, a rediscovered Canadian poet
Paul Potts 1911-1990, a rediscovered Canadian poet
Dorothy Roberts 1906-1993, a rediscovered Canadian poet

Can you match them?

A lost protégé of Irving Layton’s.
An ignored Hungarian-Canadian immigrant.
An unheard-of Chinese-Canadian immigrant Imagist poet.
Two Canadians-in-exile (one the overlooked niece of the famous “Confederation Poet” Charles G.D. Roberts, the other a Soho-dweller and friend of George Orwell’s).
The woman who was arguably Canada’s first Modernist poet.
Two Governor-General’s Award winners (one of these a Nova Scotian master sonneteer).
A doggerel-addicted soldier.
An invalid bestseller, who fell behind the times.
Two passionate nation-builders (including an infamously assassinated politician).
A World War I poet.
A queer World War II veteran.