Charles Bruce (poet)

Charles Bruce was a Governor General's Award -winning Canadian poet and newspaperman.

Life
He grew up on the north shore of Chedabucto Bay in Nova Scotia.

Recognition
The Mulgrave Road won the Governor General's Award for English language poetry or drama in 1950.

Northrop Frye praised The Mulgrave Road as "consistently successful." A.J.M. Smith and Ralph Gustafson included Bruce's poetry in their anthologies, the Oxford Book of Canadian Verse and the Penguin Book of Canadian Verse.