Guy Carleton Drewry
About the Poet
Guy Carleton Drewry published six volumes of poetry, with work appearing in numerous anthologies. His third book, “A Time for Turning,” won the 1952 Poetry Awards Foundation Prize. He was appointed in 1970 by the Virginia General Assembly to a lifetime term as Poet Laureate of Virginia.
He was a past president of the Virginia Poetry Society, as well as a regional vice president of the Poetry Society of America. His work was published widely in the Nation, New Republic, Yale Review, New York Times, New York Herald Tribune, Poetry, Queen’s Quarterly, Voices, Saturday Review and Saturday Evening Post. He was an associate editor of The Lyric from 1929 to 1949.
Drewry was born in 1901 and died in 1991.
From the Poetry Society of Virginia
Region
West Central
Virginia City or County Affiliation
Roanoke, Virginia
Gender
Male
Race/Ethnicity
White
Year of Birth
1901-1991
Published Works or Performances
- Cloud above Clocktime. Dutton, 1957.
- Proud Horns. The Macmillan Company, 1933.
- The Sounding Summer. Dutton, 1948.
- A Time of Turning. Dutton, 1951.
- To Love That Well. A S Barnes, 1975.
- The Writhen Wood. Dutton, 1953.
Selected Individual Poems or Performances
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This Tree, 1945.
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Two Poems: Time in the Trees, 1945.
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Pause, 1945.
Guy Carleton Drewry