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The Prince George poet is being remembered as a teacher and friend, who helped create a northern B.C. literary scene that brought internationally acclaimed poets to town, and who mentored generations of new writers.
Barry McKinnon's 1980 book of poetry, the the, was a Governor General’s Literary Award finalist in 1981.
INTRODUCTION As I’ve learned from my own experiences in the classroom both as a student and as an instructor, poetry is so often taught badly to us in grade school (if at all). I am, to this day, learning how to undo the myth of poetry being the work of certainty—a perfect command of a subject, experience, event proclaimed through verse. This is obviously a byproduct of the ways in which the Western canon is taught: the work of “great masters” whose genius we are trained to admire and respect. But my immersion in queer and disability writing has taught me the value of