Oikos
- Publisher
- Gaspereau Press Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2014
- Category
- Essays
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554471256
- Publish Date
- Mar 2014
- List Price
- $9.95
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Description
This essay on ecology and language was originally presented during Convocation exercises held by Nova Scotia Agricultural College on 4 May 2012, at which the author received an honourary Doctorate of Laws from Dalhousie University.
About the author
Raised in Ontario, Peter Sanger (1943) was born in Worcestershire, England, and was for twenty-six years a professor at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College in Truro. An editor of The Antigonish Review, Sanger also edited John Thompson: Collected Poems and Translations (1995). He founded the Elizabeth Bishop Society of Nova Scotia. His books on poetry include SeaRun: Notes on John Thompson's "Stilt Jack" (1986) and "Her kindled shadow . . .": An Introduction to the Work of Richard Outram (2001, 2002). A collection of essays, Spar: Words in Place, was published by Gaspereau Press in 2002.