(Red Deer Press, 2000 pb; cover design: Duncan Campbell, photo: Edward Cavell)
Jon Whyte (1941-1991) was born in Banff and lived there in a log cabin except from 1956-1968, while he was studying at U of A and Stanford. Influenced by Peter and Catherine Whyte (of Banff’s Whyte Museum fame), he was a contrarian and poet ahead of his time. Whyte was also a filmmaker, bookseller, publisher, local historian, and museum-keeper. I used one of his interesting concrete poems, “I’ve Always Lived across the Street” in my Inside Poetry, 2nd. ed. opus (Harcourt).