Milton Acorn
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Milton Acorn 🇨🇦

The People's Poet (Known as "Milton James Rhode Acorn")
Poet, Carpenter, Labor Voice, Author of The Island Means Minago
Born 30 March 1923 🇨🇦 Charlottetown, Canada
Passed Away 20 August 1986 Charlottetown, Canada
Lifespan 63 years old
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"Since I'm a poet, I must tell you what my eyes have seen: beauty born in the calloused hand of the worker."

Archival Overview

Fierce Prince Edward Island working-class poet who was crowned "The People's Poet" by his fellow writers and won the Governor General's Award.

Biographical Record

Milton Acorn was an uncompromising Canadian lyric poet and carpenter from Prince Edward Island. After serving in the Canadian Army during World War II, Acorn championed labor struggles, socialist causes, and the natural beauty of the Maritimes through powerful, rhythmic verse.

When his 1969 collection I've Tasted My Blood was passed over by the Governor General's committee, fellow writers including Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Al Purdy gathered at Grossman's Tavern in Toronto to crown him "The People's Poet" with a specially struck medallion. In 1977, he officially won the Governor General's Award for The Island Means Minago.

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Final Resting Place

Perpetual Memorial
Floral Hills Memorial Gardens
Pleasant Valley, Canada
GPS: 46.3667, -63.3833
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