| Summary: | Mary Dalton is an award-winning Newfoundland poet born in 1950 in Harbour Main. Dalton was a Professor in the English Department at Memorial University, and designated Professor Emerita after retiring. As the founder of the annual SPARKS Literary Festival in 2009, she has had a major role in the Newfoundland and Labrador arts community. Dalton has won numerous awards for her poetry, including: Provincial Arts and Letters Awards for Poetry (1997, 2002, 2006); TickleAce/Cabot Award for Poetry (1998); E. J. Pratt Poetry Award (2005); Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry (2005). Her books of poetry include: The Time of Icicles (1989), Allowing the Light (1993), Merrybegot (2003), Red Ledger (2006), Between You and the Weather (2008), Hooking: A Book of Centos (2013), Waste Ground (2017).
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