Wildlife: Remembering Edmonton Poet Laureate E.D. Blodgett

One of Edmonton’s creative giants passed away in Surrey on Nov. 15, former Edmonton Poet Laureate Edward Dickenson (E.D.) Blodgett.
In 1996, he won the Governor General’s Award for poetry for his collection Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano, and spent the majority of his professional life in Edmonton, co-founding the Writers Guild of Alberta, inhabiting the Writer in Residence position at MacEwan University in 2004, being named to our Culture Hall of Fame in 2011 and publishing 30 books