The Long Poem Anthology

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Michael Ondaatje
Coach House Press, 1979 - Poetry - 343 pages

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About the author (1979)

Michael Ondaatje was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) on September 12, 1943. He moved to Canada in 1962 and became a Canadian citizen. He received a B.A. from the University of Toronto and a M.A. from Queen's University, Kingston, and taught English at York University. He has written several volumes of poetry, novels, and other works including There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do, The Dainty Monsters, Rat Jelly, Coming through Slaughter, Running in the Family, In the Skin of a Lion, Anil's Ghost, and The Cat's Table. His title, Warlight, made the bestseller list in 2018. Ondaatje has won numerous awards including the Canadian Governor General's Award in 1971 for The Collected Works of Billy the Kid and the Booker Prize in Fiction for The English Patient, which was adapted into a film in 1996.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Long Poem Anthology
EditorMichael Ondaatje
ContributorMichael Ondaatje
PublisherCoach House Press, 1979
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMar 3, 2008
ISBN0889101779, 9780889101777
Length343 pages
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Poetry / Canadian
  
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