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In addition to writing haiku, lyrical and political poetry, Faiers founded Unfinished Monument Press in 1978. He hosted a poetry reading series at the Main Street Library in Toronto, Ontario, and has been a proponent of Canadian haiku. Faiers was also a founding member of the Canadian Poetry Association, with James Deahl, Shaunt Basmajian and Wayne Ray and a founding member of Haiku Canada, with Eric Amann, George Swede, Margaret Saunders and others. In 1987 Faiers was the first recipient of the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award for his book Foot Through the Ceiling (1986). He moved to the Kawartha Lakes area of Ontario in 1989. He worked at the library in Stirling, Ontario for 10 years.
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