Lionel John Kearns (born February 16, 1937) is a Canadian poet and teacher He was born in
Nelson
Nelson may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Nelson'' (1918 film), a historical film directed by Maurice Elvey
* ''Nelson'' (1926 film), a historical film directed by Walter Summers
* ''Nelson'' (opera), an opera by Lennox Berkeley to a lib ...
, British Columbia, and attended the
University of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...
, where he was a student of
Earle Birney
Earle Alfred Birney (13 May 1904 – 3 September 1995) was a Canadian poet and novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honour, for his poetry.
Life
Born in Calgary, Alberta, and raised on a farm in Eric ...
. He later taught at
Simon Fraser University
Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses, all in Greater Vancouver: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver. The main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located from ...
.
Bibliography
*''Songs of Circumstance'' – 1963
*''Pointing'' – 1967
*''By the Light of the Silvery Mclune'' – 1969
*''Practising Up to Be Human'' – 1978
*''Ignoring the Bomb'' – 1982
*''Convergences'' – 1984
*''Foreign Aid''
*''Environment''
References
* Jim Andrews
On Lionel Kearns A binary meditation on or contemporary wreading of the work of Lionel Kearns (2004).
* Lianne Moyes, "Dialoguing the Monologue of History and Lyric: Lionel Kearns' ''Convergences", '' Open Letter'' 7, 5 (Summer 1989),15–27.
* Manina Jones, "Log Entries: Exploring discursive space in Lionel Kearns Convergences", in Douglas Barber, ed., ''Beyond Tish. (1991)
External links
LionelKearns.comRecords of Lionel Kearns are held by Simon Fraser University's Special Collections and Rare Books* Archives of Lionel Kearn
(Lionel Kearns fonds, R11758)are held at
Library and Archives Canada
Library and Archives Canada (LAC; french: Bibliothèque et Archives Canada) is the federal institution, tasked with acquiring, preserving, and providing accessibility to the documentary heritage of Canada. The national archive and library is th ...
1937 births
Living people
20th-century Canadian poets
Canadian male poets
Alumni of SOAS University of London
People from Nelson, British Columbia
20th-century Canadian male writers
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