Dig Up My Heart

There was only one Milton Acorn. Eight YEars after his death in August 1986, there is still only one Milton Acorn. Gritty, heart-stricken, boisterous, soaring, he was and is a poet of vast anger and vast tenderness, a militant improbable worker who(as he said of himself) traded his carpenter's tools for a pen.

Poet, Milton James Rhode Acorn was born on March 30, 1923 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

His hometown was the inspiration for some of his best works. Acorn received the Canadian Poet Award, more commonly known as the People's Poet award in 1970 for his poetry collection "I've Tasted My Blood." This award was created in his honor by other Canadian poets. In 1975, he was awarded the Governor General's Award for "The Island Means Minago."