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David William McFadden

デイヴィッド・ウィリアム・マクファデン

Deibiddo Wiriamu Makufaden

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1940-10-11 （Hamilton, Ontario）
Died
2018-06-06 age 77
Nationality
Canadian
Languages
English
Residence History
Hamilton, Ontario

Career

Occupations
poet, fiction writer, travel writer
Active Years
1967-2012
Affiliations
Coach House Press, SwiftCurrent, Canadian Art Magazine, Quill and Quire, Brick
Memberships
GOSH (Gentlemen of Sensible Height), International PEN, Writer's Union of Canada, League of Canadian Poets, Last Minute Club
Influenced By
Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Nominations
1984 Governor General's Award (The Art of Darkness), 1988 Governor General's Award (Gypsy Guitar), 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize (Why Are You So Sad?), 2009 Governor General's Award (Be Calm, Honey)

Awards

Griffin Poetry Prize
2013
Work: What's the Score?
Category: Poetry
Organization: Griffin Poetry Prize
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

What's the Score?

2012 Poetry

A collection of poems critiquing modern society.

modern urban lifehumourmistakes of imagination

Gypsy Guitar

1987 Poetry

100 Baudelaire-inspired prose poems.

poetryguitar

Bibliography

  • The Poem Poem (1967)
  • Letters from the Earth to the Earth (1968)
  • Poems Worth Knowing (1971)
  • Intense Pleasure (1972)
  • The Ova Yogas (1972)
  • The Poet's Progress (1977)
  • The Saladmaker (1977)
  • I Don't Know (1978)
  • A Knight in Dried Plums (1978)
  • On the Road Again (1978)
  • A New Romance (1979)
  • My Body Was Eaten By Dogs (1981)
  • Country of the Open Heart (1982)
  • Three Stories and Ten Poems (1982)
  • A Pair of Baby Lambs (1983)
  • The Art of Darkness (1984)
  • Gypsy Guitar (1987)
  • Anonymity Suite (1992)
  • There'll Be Another (1995)
  • Five Star Planet (2002)
  • Why Are You So Sad? Selected Poems of David W. McFadden (2007)
  • Be Calm, Honey (2008)
  • Why Are You So Long & Sweet? Collected Long Poems of David W. McFadden (2009)
  • What's the Score? (2012)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Critiques commercialism and shallowness of modern societyOvert humourReflections on contemporary urban life
Recurring Motifs
Mistakes of the imaginationCanadian subjects and settings

Health

  • Logopenic variant primary progressive aphasia (Alzheimer's disease)
    2012年診断
    Affects memory of words.

Legacy

Prominent Canadian poet, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize. Known for works influenced by Beat generation and New York School.

Archives

  • McMaster University Library