David McFadden

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David William McFadden (born October 11, 1940) is a Canadian poet and novelist. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario a first started working there as a reporter for the Hamilton Spectator newspaper. As he grew more renowned as a poet he quit the newspaper and became a full time writer in 1976. He is currently a professor at York University and lives in Toronto, Ontario.

McFadden's poetry critiques the commercialism and shallowness of modern society. His work, with it's overt humour, poignant reflections on contemporary urban life, and interest on the mysteries of the imagination, reveal an affinity with Frank O'Hara, John Ashberry and the New York School of the 1950s, as well as the Beat writers of the 1960s--Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti most obviously. His work, however, remains distinctly Canadian in subject matter, setting and personality. His book of 100 Baudelaire-inspired prose poems, Gypsy Guitar, was famously called "Everyone's favourite book of poems" by George Bowering.

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