David McFadden
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David William McFadden (born October 11, 1940) is a Canadian poet and novelist. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario a first started working there as a reporter for the Hamilton Spectator newspaper. As he grew more renowned as a poet he quit the newspaper and became a full time writer in 1976. He is currently a professor at York University and lives in Toronto, Ontario. His poetry crtiques the commercialism and shallowness of modern society.
Works
Poetry
- The Poem Poem
- Letters from the Earth to the Earth - 1968
- Poems Worth Knowing - 1971
- Intense Pleasure - 1972
- The Ova Yogas - 1972
- The Poet's Progress - 1977
- The Saladmaker - 1977
- I Don't Know - 1978
- A Knight in Dried Plums - 1978
- On the Road Again - 1978
- A New Romance - 1979
- My Body Was Eaten By Dogs - 1981
- Country of the Open Heart - 1982
- Three Stories and Ten Poems - 1982
- A Pair of Baby Lamds - 1983
- The Art of Darkness - 1984 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Gypsy Guitar - 1987 (nominated for a Governor General's Award)
- Anonymity Suite - 1992
- There'll Be Another - 1995