The Other Language: English Poetry of Montreal

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Muses' Company = Compagnie des muses, 1989 - Canadian poetry - 122 pages

The Other Language is a look at English poetry in Montreal, beginning with the first moderns?F.R. Scott, A.J.M. Smith, and A.M. Klein'and ending with poets who published their first book in the seventies. This collection provides the reader with an introduction to the rich and diverse body of work written by Montreal poets in this century. Montreal is the centre of two diverse cultures that exist in a perpetual state of dynamism and tension, and these poets all reflect this dialogue.

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A J M SMITH 19021980
5
IRVING LAYTON 1912
18
LEONARD COHEN 1934
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About the author (1989)

Endre Farkas was born in Hajdunanas, Hungary in 1948 to survivors of the Holocaust. Along with his parents, he escaped Hungary during the 1956 revolution and has lived in Quebec ever since. He is a poet who has had eight collections of poetry published. Surviving Words is the one that this play has been adapted from. Farkas has been collaborating with artists from other discipliines for over twenty years and many of his performace pieces have toured across Canada.

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