Due to the Somali people's passionate love for and facility with poetry, Somalia has often been referred to as a "Nation of Poets" and a "Nation of Bards", as, for example, by the Canadian novelist Margaret Laurence.
They show a strong sense of Christian symbolism and ethical concern for being a white person in a colonial state.
Margaret Thatcher | Margaret Atwood | Laurence Olivier | Margaret | Laurence Sterne | Margaret Mead | Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon | Margaret Weis | Princess Margaret | Margaret Cho | Princess Margaret Hospital | Margaret Mitchell | Laurence Fishburne | Margaret Bourke-White | Laurence Binyon | Margaret of Anjou | Margaret Court | Margaret Becker | Margaret Sullavan | Margaret Hodge | Bob and Margaret | Paul Laurence Dunbar | Margaret Murray | Laurence Harvey | Margaret Tudor | Margaret the Virgin | Margaret of York | Margaret of Austria | Margaret Laurence | Margaret Island |
In the 1970s authors such as Margaret Laurence in The Stone Angel and Robertson Davies in Fifth Business explored the changing worlds of small town Manitoba and Ontario respectively.
From 1965-1985 she corresponded with literary peers and friends such as, Hugh MacLennan, Robertson Davies, Dennis Lee, Margaret Atwood, Timothy Findley, Alice Munro, Margaret Laurence, Matt Cohen, Robert Weaver, Graeme Gibson and more.
Other notable productions produced at Passe Muraille include O.D. on Paradise and Maggie and Pierre by Linda Griffiths; Fire by David Young and Paul Ledoux; The Stone Angel, James Nichol's adaptation of the novel by Margaret Laurence; Judith Thompson's The Crackwalker; and Lilies by Quebec playwright Michel Marc Bouchard.