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[anna]

The unveiling of the Souster Steps plaque will be at Willard Gardens Parkette on Saturday, Sept. 6 at 11 am. A Legacy plaque for Souster's former home at 28 Mayfield Ave. will be unveiled at the same time. Toronto’s Poet Laureate, George Elliott Clarke will certainly be there and I think it would be appropriate for someone from the League to say a few words since he co-founded the organization.


Many poet friends and I will be there. Afterward, we will head to have lunch together. Please feel free to join us.

Anna
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

The unveiling of the Souster Steps plaque will be at Willard Gardens Parkette on Saturday, Sept. 6 at 11 am. A Legacy plaque for Souster's former home at 28 Mayfield Ave. will be unveiled at the same time. Toronto’s Poet Laureate, George Elliott Clarke will certainly be there and I think it would be appropriate for someone from the League to say a few words since he co-founded the organization.


Many poet friends and I will be there. Afterward, we will head to have lunch together. Please feel free to join us.

Anna
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[anna]

news report:

http://www.quillandquire.com/people/2014/09/08/george-elliott-clarke-and-city-of-toronto-collaborate-on-tributer-for-late-poet-raymond-souster/

Among the gathered crowd were two of Toronto’s poets laureate: the current laureate, George Elliott Clarke, and the first laureate, Dennis Lee.

“It is true that I was the city’s first official poet laureate, from 2001 to 2004,” Lee told the small crowd in his prepared remarks, “but everybody knows that from the 1940s on, the pioneering poet laureate of Toronto was Raymond Souster. He imagined us into poetic existence in the thousand images and vignettes that make up his testament, a mosaic of life in the city that he jousted with and loved.”

A banker by trade, Souster was a resident of the Swansea neighbourhood for most of his life, spending the years between 1947 and 1964 at a house on Mayfield Avenue, out of which he composed 13 volumes of poetry and inaugurated Contact Press, which Lee calls “the most important poetry press in English Canada” at the time.

Souster was “Mr. Toronto,” says Clarke, “very down to Earth, someone who was connected very poignantly to the everyday lives of Torontonians, to the life of the city. Someone who had a great deal of compassion, but compassion mixed with a sense of wonder.”
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

news report:

http://www.quillandquire.com/people/2014/09/08/george-elliott-clarke-and-city-of-toronto-collaborate-on-tributer-for-late-poet-raymond-souster/

Among the gathered crowd were two of Toronto’s poets laureate: the current laureate, George Elliott Clarke, and the first laureate, Dennis Lee.

“It is true that I was the city’s first official poet laureate, from 2001 to 2004,” Lee told the small crowd in his prepared remarks, “but everybody knows that from the 1940s on, the pioneering poet laureate of Toronto was Raymond Souster. He imagined us into poetic existence in the thousand images and vignettes that make up his testament, a mosaic of life in the city that he jousted with and loved.”

A banker by trade, Souster was a resident of the Swansea neighbourhood for most of his life, spending the years between 1947 and 1964 at a house on Mayfield Avenue, out of which he composed 13 volumes of poetry and inaugurated Contact Press, which Lee calls “the most important poetry press in English Canada” at the time.

Souster was “Mr. Toronto,” says Clarke, “very down to Earth, someone who was connected very poignantly to the everyday lives of Torontonians, to the life of the city. Someone who had a great deal of compassion, but compassion mixed with a sense of wonder.”
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[anna]

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/23/stairs_first_step_in_honouring_toronto_poet_raymond_souster_fiorito.html
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com

[[星子安娜]]

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/10/23/stairs_first_step_in_honouring_toronto_poet_raymond_souster_fiorito.html
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Anna Yin

《爱的灯塔-星子安娜双语诗选》
<Nightlights> <Seven Nights with the Chinese Zodiac> ...

http://annapoetry.com