Eldon Grier's poems focus heavily on visual imagery and colours.
12 Facts About Eldon Grier
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In 1997 Eldon Grier was made a life member of the League of Canadian Poets.
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Eldon Grier was born in London, England and raised in Montreal, Canada.
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Eldon Grier died at the age of 84 in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Eldon Grier's father was Charles Brockwill Grier and his mother was Kathleen Phyllis Black Grier.
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Elizabeth and Charles were divorced in 1952 and Eldon Grier married his second wife Sylvia Tait in 1954.
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Eldon Grier was diagnosed with tuberculosis in his mid-thirties and underwent treatment for two years before he recovered.
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At age seventeen Eldon Grier failed to find financial stability through art.
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Eldon Grier was apprenticed to Diego Rivera as a plasterer.
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Eldon Grier later became a professor at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts under Arthur Lismer.
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Eldon Grier decided to become a poet because he felt that meaning was expressed more effectively though words.
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Eldon Grier's poems manipulate lines shifts, rhyme and contain complicated stanzaic shapes.