Fonds MS-14-25 - Peter Sanger fonds

Peter Sanger is a Nova Scotia poet and literary critic who taught at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College (NSAC) from 1972-1998. Born in 1943 in Bewdley, England, he immigrated to Canada in 1953. He received his BA in history from the University of Melbourne, MA in history from the University of Victoria, and BEd from Acadia University. He taught in Ontario, British Columbia and Newfoundland before joining the Humanities Department at NSAC, teaching English literature, technical writing, and agricultural and scientific history, retiring as the head of the department and professor emeritus. In 2012 he received an honorary doctorate from Dalhousie University.

Sanger’s literary career includes poetry, essays and biographies. His first published book, The America Reel (Pottersfield Press, 1983), was followed by early poetry collections Earth Moth (Gooselane Editions, 1991), The Third Hand (Anchorage Press, 1994), and After Monteverdi (Harrier Editions, 1997). His most recent collection is Odysseus Asleep: Uncollected Sequences, 1994-2019 (Gaspereau Press, 2019). He was a long-serving poetry editor for The Antigonish Review and was instrumental in establishing and developing the Agricola Archival Collection.