Joseph Rosenblatt | |
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Born | Toronto, Ontario | December 26, 1933
Died | March 11, 2019 | (aged 85)
Occupation | writer, artist |
Language | English |
Citizenship | Canadian |
Education | high school dropout |
Alma mater | Central Technical School |
Genre | poetry, fiction, drawing |
Notable works | Bumblebee Dithyramb, Top Soil, Poetry Hotel |
Notable awards | Governor General's Award, B.C. Book Prize |
Joseph Rosenblatt (December 26, 1933 – March 11, 2019) was a Canadian poet who lived in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia. He won Canada's Governor-General's Award and British Columbia's B.C. Book Prize for poetry.[1] He was also an artist, whose "line drawings, paintings, and sketches often illustrate his own and other poets' books of poetry."[2]