Governor General's Award for Poetry, finalist, 1982 and 2005
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The First Time I Saw An Orchid
The first time I saw an orchid An Excerpt from Fire and Brimstone
Barry Dempster is a poet and fiction writer. He is the author of five volumes of poetry, including Fables for Isolated Men, which was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Poetry, and, most recently, Letters from a Long Illness with the World, the D.H. Lawrence Poems. He has also published a novel entitled The Ascension of Jesse Rapture, two collections of short stories and a children's novel, David and the Daydreams. From 1990 to 1996, Dempster was also Poetry and Reviews editor for Poetry Canada Review. Dempster was educated in Child Psychology and has worked extensively with special needs children. He presently lives in Holland Landing, Ontario.
Links The University of Toronto Libraries
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1998 release
Barry Dempster’s long-awaited new collection journeys into the secretive, often mystical niches of childhood by way of the adult poet’s quizzical, contemplative eye. Fire and Brimstone is the prolific Dempster’s sixth poetry collection.
What
the Critics Say: "Never has suburbia been captured so evocatively… Dempster’s vaulting imagination and skill with metaphors links them all, drawing the reader into a vivid world… (he brings) to his poetry an ironic eye finely taking in and detailing the quirks of human nature." —Blaine Marchand, Arc "Be prepared to be challenged, but best of all be prepared to be moved poems after poem." —Robert Hilles "For Dempster it is the life force itself—in its unconditional inclu-siveness—that is the Divine, and the joyous mystery." —John Barton "I especially liked the quick apt metaphors catching a situation or a mood exactly, …the combination of dark wit and child’s-eye renderings of experience." —Don McKay "Barry Dempster’s poetic recollections of Scarborough are a welcome addition to the Canadian literary landscape." —Ronald Charles
Epstein, ISBN 0-921852-20-7
88 pp
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