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John Thompson (17 Mar 1938 – 26 Apr 1976) was an English-born, Canadian poet, translator and university professor. He is noted for his mastery of poetic forms, which he used to express the intensity and power of images in spare and precise language evoking beauty and wonder, anguish and despair. Thompson's second and best-known book, Stilt Jack, a collection of 38 ghazals published after his death, records his poetic journeys through darkness in an uncertain quest for the light. His first collection, At the Edge of the Chopping there are no Secrets published in 1973, conveys vivid images of natural cycles of death and rebirth in the wooded and marshy landscapes of southeastern New Brunswick where an apple tree in late summer is seen as a cauldron of leaves, a charred dancer and a head of b

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rdfs:label	جون تومسون (شاعر) (ar) John Thompson (Canadian poet) (en)
rdfs:comment	جون تومسون هو مترجم وشاعر كندي، ولد في 1938، وتوفي في 1976 في Sackville ‏ في كندا. (ar) John Thompson (17 Mar 1938 – 26 Apr 1976) was an English-born, Canadian poet, translator and university professor. He is noted for his mastery of poetic forms, which he used to express the intensity and power of images in spare and precise language evoking beauty and wonder, anguish and despair. Thompson's second and best-known book, Stilt Jack, a collection of 38 ghazals published after his death, records his poetic journeys through darkness in an uncertain quest for the light. His first collection, At the Edge of the Chopping there are no Secrets published in 1973, conveys vivid images of natural cycles of death and rebirth in the wooded and marshy landscapes of southeastern New Brunswick where an apple tree in late summer is seen as a cauldron of leaves, a charred dancer and a head of b (en)
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death place	New Brunswick
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birth place	Timperley, England (en)
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dcterms:subject	Drug-related deaths in Canada 1938 births Accidental deaths in New Brunswick 1976 deaths 20th-century Canadian male writers 20th-century Canadian poets Canadian male non-fiction writers Canadian male poets Alumni of the University of Sheffield 20th-century Canadian translators Barbiturates-related deaths People from Sackville, New Brunswick
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Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage	Canadians Drug-related deaths in Canada René Char University of Sheffield 1938 births Ghazal Mount Allison University Theodore Roethke Peter Sanger Accidental deaths in New Brunswick Library and Archives Canada Major depressive disorder Manchester Grammar School Barbiturate 1976 deaths 20th-century Canadian male writers 20th-century Canadian poets Canadian male non-fiction writers Canadian male poets Alumni of the University of Sheffield Timperley A. J. M. Smith Alcoholism 20th-century Canadian translators Dylan Thomas Paranoia Barbiturates-related deaths People from Sackville, New Brunswick John Berryman Douglas Lochhead New Brunswick Mania Philistinism
Link from a Wikipage to an external page	http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.redirect%3Fapp=fonandcol&id=3673057&lang=eng http://www.bookrags.com/biography/john-thompson-dlb/ https://web.archive.org/web/20070927131922/http:/www.arcpoetry.ca/howpoemswork/features/2004_03_blomer.php
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alma mater	Michigan State University (en)
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has abstract	جون تومسون هو مترجم وشاعر كندي، ولد في 1938، وتوفي في 1976 في Sackville ‏ في كندا. (ar)

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