In Memory of 
     
     Milton Acorn 
     
    
   
   
    
     Milton A.orn, well-known 
     
     Island writer ana poet, died of a 
     
     heart attack on August 20th, in 
     
     the Queen Elizabeth “Hospital in 
     
     Charlottetown. Acorn was born in 
     
     Charlottetown in 1923 and had his 
     
     first works published in 1952 in 
     
     New Frontiers. His first collection 
     
     of verse entitled ‘In Love and 
     
     Anger’? was issued in Montreal in 
     
     1956. Acorn was a member of the 
     
     League of Canadian Poets, and 
     
     co-founder of Georgia Strait, a 
     
     West Coast free press that rose to 
     
     a circulation of 60,000 in six 
     
     months. The brightest moment in 
     
     Acorn’s career came when he was 
     
     honored by his fellow poets with 
     
     the special title of the People’s 
     
     Poet. He was awarded the recog- 
     
     nition at a favorite haunt of his, 
     
     Grossman’s Tavern in Toronto. 
     
     The award touched him deeply 
     
     and he wore his special medallion 
     
     for years. Aco: nalso received the 
     
     Governor General’s award for 
     
    
   
   
    
     poetry in 1975. 
     
    

    
     The most recent collection of 
     
     Acorn’s work, which some critics 
     
     believe to be his best, was pub- 
     
     lished in 1983 and is entitled “Dig 
     
     Up My Heart’, The collected 
     
     thoughts and papers of Acorn 
     
     were purchased by the National 
     
     Archives of Canada in 1985. In 
     
     commenting on Acorn’s death, 
     
     Mr. Clements, the Minister of 
     
     Community and Cultural Affairs, 
     
     stated, ‘‘The Arts community was 
     
     shocked and deeply saddened. 
     
     There is a sense of loss, not only 
     
     for the great writer and poet that 
     
     he was, but also for the passing 
     
     for a defiant, passionate spirit 
     
     who took us to the ed of agony, 
     
     beauty, and revalation in his 
     
     writing.’’ Milton Acorn has left a 
     
     cultural treasure as his legacy and 
     
     will be remembered as one of 
     
     Canada’s most brilliant artists. 
     
    

    
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