Stanley Louis Dragland (December 2, 1942 – August 2, 2022) was a Canadian novelist, poet and literary critic."Stanley Louis Dragland"
'' The Canadian Encyclopedia'', November 15, 2009. A longtime professor of English literature at the University of Western Ontario, 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 Duncan Campbell Scott in light of his role as deputy superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs.

Career

Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta, Dragland was educated at the University of Alberta and

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. While teaching at Western, he was a founder of the poetry publisher Brick Books and the literary magazine ''

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''. His first novel, ''Peckertracks'', was a shortlisted finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award. 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 New Canadian Library editions of Scott's ''In the Village of Viger and Other Stories'' and Leonard Cohen's '' Beautiful Losers''.

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, Newfoundland and Labrador, where he continued his writing career and remarried to Beth Follett, the publisher of

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. Dragland was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2021. Dragland died in Trinity, Newfoundland and Labrador 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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