Stanley Louis Dragland (December 2, 1942 – August 2, 2022) was a Canadian novelist, poet and literary critic."Stanley Louis Dragland"
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'', November 15, 2009. A longtime professor of English literature at the

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, he was most noted for his 1994 critical study ''Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9'', which played a key role in the contemporary reevaluation of the legacy of poet

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in light of his role as deputy superintendent of the

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Career

Born and raised in

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, Dragland was educated at the

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and Queen's University. While teaching at Western, he was a founder of the poetry publisher Brick Books and the literary magazine '' Brick''. His first novel, ''Peckertracks'', was a shortlisted finalist for the

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. He won the Newfoundland and Labrador Rogers Cable Non-Fiction Award in 2005 for his memoir ''Apocrypha: Further Journeys'',"Book Award winners announced". '' The Western Star'', April 22, 2005. and he was a shortlisted finalist for the E. J. Pratt Poetry Award in 2007 for ''Stormy Weather: Foursomes''. He wrote the forewords for the

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editions of Scott's ''In the Village of Viger and Other Stories'' and

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's ''

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''.

Personal life

During his academic career he was married to Marnie Parsons, a fellow professor at Western. The couple later separated. After his retirement, Dragland moved to St. John's,

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, where he continued his writing career and remarried to Beth Follett, the publisher of Pedlar Press. Dragland was made a member of the

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in 2021. Dragland died in

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during a hike on August 2, 2022, at the age of 79.

Books

*''Wilson MacDonald's Western Tour, 1923-4'' (1975) *''Peckertracks'' (1978) *''Approaches to the Work of James Reaney'' (1983) *''Simon Jesse's Journey'' (1983)"3 Canadian writers reading at St. Jerome's". ''

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'', October 11, 2003. *''Journeys Through Bookland'' (1985) *''The Bees of the Invisible'' (1991) *''Floating Voice: Duncan Campbell Scott and the Literature of Treaty 9'' (1994) *''New Life in Dark Seas'' (2000) *''12 Bars'' (2002) *''Apocrypha: Further Journeys'' (2003) *''Stormy Weather: Foursomes'' (2005) *''Hard-Headed and Big-Hearted: Writing Newfoundland'' (2006) *''The Drowned Lands'' (2008) *''Deep Too'' (2013) *''The Bricoleur and His Sentences'' (2014) *''Strangers & Others: Newfoundland Essays'' (2015) *''Witness: Poetry and Prose of Joanne Page'' (2015) *''Gerald Squires'' (2017)"Of rocks and roots: Exploring the life and work of Newfoundland artist Gerald Squires". ''

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'', July 8, 2017.

References

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