Known as "The People's Poet," Milton Acorn won the Canadian Poetry Award in 1970 for his selected poems, I've Tasted My Blood, and won the Governor General's Award for his 1975 collection, The Island Means Minago.
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Milton Acorn has published several books of poetry, appeared in many anthologies, has been heard on radio, seen on TV, and his poems have been recorded by the Perth County Conspiracy. A film, tenatively titled The People's Poet is in preparation.
In 1970, his selected poems, I've Tasted My Blood, won the unique Canadian Poetry Award granted by the poets themselves in opposition to the Governor General's Award, granted the same year to George Bowering and Gwendolyn MacEwen. With this award went a sum of money and the title The People's Poet.
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