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Michael Ondaatje’s selected poems, The Cinnamon Peeler, brings together poems written between 1963 and 1990, including work from his most recent collection, Secular Love. These poems bear witness to the extraordinary gifts that have won high praise for this truly original poet and novelist.
Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje is a Canadian poet, novelist, editor and filmmaker. Born in Sri Lanka in 1943, Ondaatje immigrated to Canada where he attended the University of Toronto and Queen's University before teaching at York University. After gaining some initial success as a poet with Governor General's Award-winning collections like, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, and There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems, Ondaatje eventually turned to writing novels, inclu
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