Born in Guelph, Ontario on March 25, 1922, Douglas grew up in Fredericton and Ottawa. He graduated from McGill in 1943 (B.A. Pre-Med.) then served as artillery and infantry officer in the Canadian Army in Canada and overseas. Douglas graduated from the University of Toronto with an M.A. in English in 1947. He took a B.L.S. at McGill in 1951 then was Librarian and Professor of English at Victoria University, BC; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Dalhousie; York; Massey College; and Mount Allison. He was also the Writer-in-Residence at Mount Allison University. Douglas has lived in Sackville, NB from 1975 to the present.
PUBLICATIONS:
Weathers: Poems New & Selected. Frederiction, NB: Goose Lane Editions, 2002.
Dykelands. Montreal: McGill UP, 1989.
Tiger in the Skull: New and Selected. Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane Editions, 1986.
High Marsh Road. Toronto: Anson-Cartwright Editions, 1980.
The Full Furnace: Collected Poems. Toronto: McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1975.
AWARDS:
Appointed life-time Poet Laureate of Sackville, NB, 2003.
D.Litt, St. Mary's University, 1987.
LLD, Dalhousie University, 1987.
Shortlisted, Governor General's Literary Award for High Marsh Road, 1981.
