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To Possess The Land is an anthology of 16 of Canada's most important Confederation Poets, with bio notes and bibliography. Their poetry has been out-of-print for decades. Among the goals of this anthology is an investigation of the climate of opinion in Canada in the years following Confederation. The period of 1880 - 1920 is studied. By reading these poems, readers will understand the romantic dreams that were common during the early decades of Canada, dreams that were ended by World War I. After the war, Canada became a different place.

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It is highly appropriate that this companion volume to James Deahl's The Confederation Poets: The Founding of a Canadian Poetry, 1880 to the First World War (Guernica Editions, 2022) has been published now. At this time, the Trump regime is seeking to sound the death knell of ""that True North,"" which was first seen by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in the mosaic of Confederation, as expressed in his famous post-Confederation salute to ""that True North."" It is essential that we ""Ring out the false, ring in the true."" We can do this by means of the sounding of the poetic summons of our land's cultural ancestors. An analysis of an anthology of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Canadian poetry in English, such as this collection provided by Deahl, makes a good first retelling. --Terry Barker

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James Deahl was born in Pittsburgh in 1945, and grew up in that city as well as in and around the Laurel Highlands of the Appalachian Mountains. He moved to Canada in 1970 and holds Canadian citizenship. He is the author or editor of forty literary titles, recently his two prior collections from Guernica, Rooms the Wind Makes and Red Haws to Light the Field, as well as Tamaracks: Canadian poetry for the 21st century, the first major anthology of Canadian poetry published in the U.S. in three decades. He is the father of Sarah, Simone, and Shona, with whom he is translating the poetry of the Quebecois poet mile Nelligan. Deahl lives in Sarnia with companion Norma West Linder.

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