David Donnell

David Donnell is a Canadian poet and writer was born in St. Marys, Ontario 13 Oct 1939) Donnell moved to Toronto in 1958 before publishing his first book. Poems (1961), During this period Donnell frequented the Bohemian Embassy, where Margaret Atwood, Gwendolyn MacEwen, Milton Acorn, and other poets estabhsh their reputations. In conjunction with John Robert Colombo, Donnell printed Atwood's First book Double Persephone (1961) 	Donnell Published The Blue Sky poems 1974-77 examining the relationships of his life from an oblique perspective Then Dangerous Crossings(1980) followed by A Poem About Poland 	Donnell won the Canadian Comic Poet Award in 1981, and the 1983 Governor General's Award for English language poetry for his collection Settlements. Donnell continued publishing with Water Street days (1989) where he examines his past and his childhood; the poems are narrative confession's; and China blues (1992)  Donnell poetry offers perspective about city live and the stresses and ironic staples of urban life. David Donnell's poetry is known for its escalating fascination with prose fiction that becomes more dominant in the final sections of China Blues and Water Street Days ,and becoming a important feature in his publishing of Dancing In The Dark (1996). David Donnell also received Therafields Chapbook Award, 1986. City of Toronto Book Award, 1993.

Publications

 * Poems (1969)
 * The Blue Sky (1977)
 * Hemingway in Toronto (1982) ISBN 0-88753-090-7
 * Settlements (1983) ISBN 0-7710-2849-0
 * The Blue Ontario Hemingway Boat Race (1985) ISBN 0-88910-302-X.
 * The Natural History of Water (1986) ISBN 0-920901-01-8
 * Water Street Days (1989) ISBN 0-7710-2848-2
 * China Blues: Poems and Stories (1992) ISBN 0-7710-2843-1
 * Dancing in the Dark (1996) ISBN 0-7710-2833-4
 * Sometimes a Great Notion (2004) ISBN 978-0-7710-2826-7

External references

 * David Donnell's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia