Don Coles

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Don Coles

Don Coles is one of Canada’s most successful and respected poets. He studied history at the University of Toronto and took a second degree at Cambridge University, then spent more than a decade on the continent in France, Germany, Switzerland and Scandinavia. Coles and his wife, Heidi, returned to Canada after the birth of his first child, and he was invited to join the faculty of York University’s humanities department. Don Coles has published ten books of poetry. He is the recipient of a Governor General’s Award, a Trillium Award and the John Glassco Prize for Translation. He lives in Toronto. (Source)

Poems by Don Coles

My Son at the Seashore, Age Two by Don Coles

March 2, 2011

"a little breeze passing by / on its way to oblivion — / as this day is on its way there too," — Don Coles