About Douglas Lochhead

DOUGLAS LOCHHEAD was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a life-member of the League of Canadian Poets. Born in Guelph, Ontario in 1922, he served as an infantry and artillery officer in the Canadian Army during World War II. He was a graduate of McGill University and the University of Toronto. He taught English and was a member of the library staffs of universities in Canada, the United States, and Scotland. In 1975, Lochhead became the Davidson Professor of Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University, and lived in Sackville, New Brunswick, from that time. From 1987 to 1990 he was the first writer-in-residence at Mount Allison University, and was a Professor Emeritus at Mount Allison, as well as a Senior Fellow and Founding Librarian of Massey College, University of Toronto.

Lochhead's High Marsh Road was a finalist for the Governor-General's Award for Poetry, and in 2005 he received the Carlo Betocchi International Poetry Prize for High Marsh Road / La Strada di Tantramar. He was also a recipient of the Alden Nowlan Award for Excellence in English-language Literary Arts, and of many honorary degrees.

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