David Donnell
David Donnell | |
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Born | (1939-10-13) October 13, 1939 (age 84) St. Marys, Ontario, Canada |
Died | May 23, 2020(2020-05-23) (aged 81) |
Occupation | Writer, Poet |
David Donnell (born 13 October 1939, died 2020) was a Canadian poet and writer. Born in St. Marys, Ontario,[1] Donnell moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1958 before publishing his first book. Poems (1961), During this period Donnell frequented the Bohemian Embassy,[2] where Margaret Atwood, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Milton Acorn, and other poets established their reputations. In conjunction with John Robert Colombo, Donnell printed Atwood's first book Double Persephone (1961) Donnell Published The Blue Sky poems 1974-77 examining the relationships of his life from an oblique perspective, then Dangerous Crossings (1980) followed by A Poem About Poland.[2] Donnell won the Canadian Comic Poet Award in 1981, and the 1983 Governor General's Award for English language poetry for his collection Settlements. Donnell continued publishing with Water Street days (1989) where he examines his past and his childhood; the poems are narrative confessions; and China blues (1992).[2] Donnell's poetry offers perspectives about city life and the stresses and ironic staples of urban life. Donnell's poetry is known for its escalating fascination with prose fiction that becomes more dominant in the final sections of China Blues and Water Street Days, and becoming an important feature in his publishing of Dancing In The Dark (1996).
David Donnell also received the Therafields Chapbook Award in 1986 and the City of Toronto Book Award in 1993.[3]
Works
- Poems (1969)
- The Blue Sky (1977) ISBN 0-88753-031-1 / 0-88753-032-X
- Dangerous Crossings (1980) ISBN 0-88753-064-8
- Hemingway in Toronto (1982) ISBN 0-88753-090-7
- Settlements (1983) ISBN 0-7710-2849-0
- The Blue Ontario Hemingway Boat Race (1985) ISBN 0-88910-302-X.
- The Natural History of Water (1986) ISBN 0-920901-01-8
- Water Street Days (1989) ISBN 0-7710-2848-2
- China Blues: Poems and Stories (1992) ISBN 0-7710-2843-1
- crab cakes w/blueberries (1995) ISBN 0-921688-10-5
- Dancing in the Dark (1996) ISBN 0-7710-2833-4
- Sometimes a Great Notion (2004) ISBN 978-0-7710-2826-7
References
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- F. R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott (1981)
- Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems (1982)
- David Donnell, Settlements (1983)
- Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation (1984)
- Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan (1985)
- Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy (1986)
- Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds (1987)
- Erín Moure, Furious (1988)
- Heather Spears, The Word for Sand (1989)
- Margaret Avison, No Time (1990)
- Don McKay, Night Field (1991)
- Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk (1992)
- Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World (1993)
- Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room (1994)
- Anne Szumigalski, Voice (1995)
- E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996)
- Dionne Brand, Land to Light On (1997)
- Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems (1998)
- Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth (1999)
- Don McKay, Another Gravity (2000)
- George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems (2001)
- Roy Miki, Surrender (2002)
- Tim Lilburn, Kill-site (2003)
- Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida (2004)
- Anne Compton, processional (2005)
- John Pass, Stumbling in the Bloom (2006)
- Don Domanski, All Our Wonder Unavenged (2007)
- Jacob Scheier, More to Keep Us Warm (2008)
- David Zieroth, The Fly in Autumn (2009)
- Richard Greene, Boxing the Compass (2010)
- Phil Hall, Killdeer (2011)
- Julie Bruck, Monkey Ranch (2012)
- Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs (2013)
- Arleen Paré, Lake of Two Mountains (2014)
- Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me (2015)
- Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late (2016)
- Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood (2017)
- Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang (2018)
- Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild (2019)
- Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy (2020)
- Tolu Oloruntoba, The Junta of Happenstance (2021)
- Annick MacAskill, Shadow Blight (2022)
- Hannah Green, Xanax Cowboy (2023)