Robert Zend (1929 - 1985) was a

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poet, fiction writer and a multimedia artist.Robert Zend
at

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. Born in

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, Zend fled to Canada after the failed

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. He took a master's degree in

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from the

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in 1969, and worked as a producer of

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documentaries for

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. His poetry collections included ''From Zero to One'' (1973), ''Beyond Labels'' (1982) and ''Arbormundi'' (1982); ''Oāb'', was published in two separate volumes in 1983 and 1985. A short story collection, ''Daymares: Selected Fictions on Dreams and Time'', was published posthumously in 1991. Zend was part of a trilogy of Toronto poets who published with HMS Press et al. ''The Three Roberts'' with

Robert Sward Robert Sward (23 June 1933 – 21 February 2022) was an American and Canadian poet and novelist. Jack Foley, in his introduction to Sward's ''Collected Poems, 1957–2004'', called him, "in truth, a citizen, at heart, of both countries. At once ...

and

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in 1984.

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