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Forgotten Ground Regained

Earle Birney

Earl Birney (1904-1995) was a noted Canadian poet and author who twice won the Governor's General award for his poetry. H ewrote several poems in alliterative verse over his career.
  • "Anglo-Saxon Street" (1942) And "War Winters" (1940) were first published in David and other Poems (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1942): 14-15. "Anglo-Saxon Street" also appears in Dennis Wise's critical anthology of modern alliterative verse.
  • "Mappemounde" (1945) was first published in The Strait of Anian (1948).
  • "Oil Refinery" appears in Earle Birney's Collected Poetry (1975), vol. 2, and is reprinted in Dennis Wise's critical anthology of modern alliterative verse. ("Anglo-Saxon Street", "War Winters" and "Mappemound" also appear in his Collected Poetry, vol. 1.)
  • “Beyond the Meadhall” was first published in Last Makings (1991)
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