Lorne Pierce Medal

Year
2008
Sullivan, Rosemary (1947 - 0)
Index to poems
  1. A Child's Alone
  2. Double Take
  3. Euclid Street
  4. Farmer's Daughter
  5. Passe-Port
  6. She walked into our lives like she invented us (4)
  7. The universe is as close as the veins in your neck
  8. The way, in a rainstorm, the sky (5)
  9. The Witness
Biography

Rosemary Sullivan has published ten books of creative non-fiction and poetry. Her works include Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille (2006), Cuba: Grace Under Pressure, By Heart: Elizabeth Smart, A Life, Labyrinth of Desire: Women Passion and Romantic Obsession, Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen, and The Bone Ladder: New and Selected Poetry. She was awarded the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction (1995), the City of Toronto Award (1996), and Guggenheim and Killam Fellowships, as well as National Magazine and Western Magazine awards for journalism. She has also edited numerous anthologies. She holds a Canada Research Chair in the Department of English at the University of Toronto, and the Maclean Hunter Chair in Literary Journalism at the Banff Centre for the Arts.

 

  • Sullivan, Rosemary. The Guthrie Road. Black Moss Press, 2009.
  • --. Villa Air-Bel: World War II, Escape, and a House in Marseille. HarperCollins, 2006.
  • --. Cuba: Grace Under Pressure. McArthur & Co, 2003.
  • --. Labyrinth of Desire: Women, Passion, and Romantic Obsession. Toronto: Harper Flamingo, 2001.
  • --. Shadow Maker: the Life of Gwendolyn MacEwan. Toronto: Harper Perennial, 2001.
  • --. The Bone Ladder: New and Selected Poetry. Windsor, On.: Black Moss Press, 2000.
  • --. Blue Panic. Windsor, On.: Black Moss Press, 1991.
  • --. The Space a Name Makes. Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press, 1986.
  • --, ed. Poetry by Canadian Women/ Oxford University Press, 1989.
Year
1926
Roberts, Charles G. D. (1860 - 1943)
Index to poems
  1. An Epitaph for a Husbandman
  2. Ave! (An Ode for the Shelley Centenary, 1892)
  3. Bat, Bat, Come Under my Hat
  4. Canada
  5. In an Old Barn
  6. Monition
  7. O Earth, Sufficing All our Needs
  8. Philander's Song
  9. Tantramar Revisited
  10. The Cow Pasture
  11. The Departing of Gluskâp
  12. The Frosted Pane
  13. The Great and Little Weavers
  14. The Herring Weir
  15. The Iceberg
  16. The Potato Harvest
  17. The Salt Flats
  18. The Skater
  19. The Solitary Woodsman
  20. Twilight on Sixth Avenue at Ninth Street
Biography

Charles G. D. Roberts was born on January 10, 1860, in Douglas, New Brunswick, and grew up near the Tantramar marshes by Sackville. Educated at Fredericton Collegiate School from 1874 to 1876, and at the University of New Brunswick from 1876 to 1879, Roberts quickly published his first book of poetry, Orion, and Other Poems (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1880; PS 8485 .O22 O7). He married Mary Fenety that same year, and they had five children up to 1892. After acting as schoolmaster in Chatham and Fredericton, he taught English and French at King's College in Windsor, Nova Scotia, from 1885 to 1895. Three volumes of poetry came out during this period

In Divers Tones (Boston: D. Lothrop, 1886; PS 8485 .O22 I48)
Poems of Wild Life (London: W. Scott, 1888; PN 6110 N2R63)
Songs of the Common Day and Ave (Toronto: W. Briggs, 1893; B-10 0376)

and Roberts was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada this year. After resigning from King's College in 1895, and determining to work free-lance, Roberts separated from his wife, daughter, and sons in 1897, leaving Canada for New York City, where he stayed from until 1907, and then for Europe, first in Paris, by 1910 in Munich, and after 1912 in London, England, until 1925. During this period he earned his living from writing fiction, especially animal stories and romances, and non-fiction prose. He served during War World I in the 16th Battalion of the King's Regiment, then as captain at the London Canadian War Records Office, and last as a Major and a press correspondent in France. While living outside Canada, Roberts produced four volumes of verse:

New York Nocturnes and Other Poems (Boston: Lamson, 1898; B-10 6603)
Poems (New York: Silver Burdett, 1901; rev. 1907; PS 8485 .O22 A17)
The Book of the Rose (Toronto: Copp, Clark, 1903; Ps 8485 .O22 B6)
New Poems (London: Constable, 1919; PS 8485 O22N4)

In 1925 Roberts went to live in Toronto and his wandering, expatriotic life ended. He gave poetry recital tours in 1925-26. His wife Mary died in 1930. Late in his life, when Roberts was recognized as the father of Canadian literature, he brought out four more substantial volumes of poetry:

The Vagrant of Time (Toronto: Ryerson, 1927; PS 8485 .O22 V3)
The Iceberg, and Other Poems (Toronto: Ryerson, 1934; PS 8485 O22 I3)
Selected Poems (Toronto: Ryerson, 1936; PS 8485 .O22 A17)
Canada Speaks of Britain and Other Poems of the War (Toronto: Ryerson, 1941; cap Fisher Rare Book Library)

Roberts received many honours: he was awarded the Royal Society of Canada's first Lorne Pierce Medal and was elected President of the Canadian Authors' Association in 1926, and he was knighted on June 3, 1935. Before his death on November 26, 1943, he was married again to Joan Montgomery. Roberts is buried in Fredericton. See also

  • Adams, John Coldwell. Sir Charles god damn: the Life of Sir Charles G. D. Roberts. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986. PS 8485 .O22 Z44 Robarts Library
  • The Collected Poems of Sir Charles G. D. Roberts: A Critical Edition. Ed. Desmond Pacey, assisted by Graham Adams. Wolfville, Nova Scotia: Wombat Press, 1985. PS 8485 O22A17 Robarts Library.
  • Collected Letters. Ed. Laurel Boone. Fredericton: Goose Lane Editions, 1989. PS 8485 .O22 Z48 Robarts Library.
  • Pomeroy, Elsie May. Sir Charles G. D. Roberts: A Biography. Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1943. PS 8485 .O22 Z83 Robarts Library.
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