{"id":40328,"date":"2017-09-30T04:00:02","date_gmt":"2017-09-30T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40328"},"modified":"2017-09-29T09:51:43","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T13:51:43","slug":"area-poet-exposes-big-name-poet-for-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/30\/area-poet-exposes-big-name-poet-for-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Area poet exposes big-name poet for plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bancroft is a quiet place (queue the joke about spending a week there one afternoon), and hardly the kind of place that you’d expect to be in the news for the investigative activity of a local poet<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A local Bancroft area poet has garnered international attention after inadvertently discovering and reporting alleged plagiarism by Canada\u2019s former parliamentary poet laureate and Governor General Award-winning poet Pierre DesRuisseaux, now deceased.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was looking at Canada\u2019s national poet laureate website, and I saw that some of the former poet laureate [DesRuisseaux\u2019s] material was listed there,\u201d Kathy Figueroa told Bancroft This Week<\/em>. \u201cI read the translation from the French for the poem J\u2019Avance, and I was completely astounded \u2026 it was derived from Maya Angelou\u2019s poem Still I Rise \u2026 I recognized it immediately. I was shocked \u2026 dismayed \u2026 incredulous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Figueroa then contacted the Office of the Poet Laureate to report her discovery. She noticed the poem was pulled immediately from the website. She also reported the information to Plagiarism Alert where a British investigator and poet Ira Lightman subsequently determined that other poems attributed to DesRuisseaux had plagiarized well-known poets such as Dylan Thomas and Tupac Shakur, according to CBC News. He reported his findings to the British Guardian<\/em> newspaper, giving Figueroa credit for her critical part in the discovery.<\/p>\n

As a poet herself, plagiarism is not something new. In fact, Figueroa has suffered from theft of her work on several occasions in the past.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not trivial,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is very dismaying when your work has been taken by someone else \u2026 and especially if that person has a respected name. There is a feeling of helplessness, and it impacts negatively on the person\u2019s creativity. It can leave you disenchanted \u2026 you don\u2019t feel like writing anymore.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

H\/T to Colby Cosh<\/a> for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bancroft is a quiet place (queue the joke about spending a week there one afternoon), and hardly the kind of place that you’d expect to be in the news for the investigative activity of a local poet: A local Bancroft area poet has garnered international attention after inadvertently discovering and reporting alleged plagiarism by Canada\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[592,413],"class_list":["post-40328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","tag-poetry","tag-scandal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aus","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40329,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40328\/revisions\/40329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}