"Milton Acorn, is in my view Canada’s greatest poet "  

 - Rick Salutin   The Toronto Star

 

Milton Acorn left Prince Edward Island in the late 1940s to earn his living as an itinerant carpenter, and wound up in Toronto as one of Canada's most highly regarded poets and one of its most outrageous literary figures. Dubbed "The People's Poet" by fellow poets, he won the Governor General's Literary Award in 1975. Burned out by personal crises, Acorn moved back to Charlottetown in 1981. This film brings out Acorn's wit, love of nature, unorthodox political views, and sometimes infuriating personal contradictions.

 

I tell you there are men on Earth who usually tell the truth 

I know because I am one of them,

And know I’m not unique.

 

- Milton Acorn

 

 

 

 Directed by: Kent Martin

 Producer: Barry Cowling

 Editor: Kent Martin

 Cinematography: Kent Nason

 Music: Steve Tittle

 Sound: Arthur McKay

 Executive Producer: Rex Tasker

 

    Watch: https://www.nfb.ca/film/in_love_and_anger_milton_acorn_poet