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In Love and Anger: Milton Acorn - Poet

In Love and Anger: Milton Acorn - Poet

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1984

Runtime

0h 52m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

In Love and Anger: Milton Acorn - Poet

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

Director

Kent Martin

Description

This feature documentary profiles poet Milton Acorn, who left his home in Prince Edward Island in the late 1940s to earn his living as an itinerant carpenter, and wound up in Toronto as one of Canada's most highly regarded poets and one of its most outrageous literary figures. Dubbed "The People's Poet" by fellow poets, he won the Governor General's Literary Award in 1975. Burned out by personal crises, Acorn moved back to Charlottetown in 1981. This film, directed by a P.E.I. filmmaker, brings out Acorn's wit, love of nature, unorthodox political views, and sometimes infuriating personal contradictions.