Margaret Avison - biography, career, poetry
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b. 1918 in Galt, Ontario. Infant and childhood years in Regina and Calgary (Sask. and Alta.). Educated in Ontario ( University of Toronto, 1936-40; M.A. 1963-5). Various daytime jobs, 1940-67, twice interrupted (8 months in Chicago on a Guggenheim Scholarship; two years’ teaching at Scarborough College, University of Toronto: 1967-8). Conversion to Christian faith in early 1963. Late ’63 till ’85, family responsibilities. Worker in Evangel Hall ’68-’73. For eight months (’73-’74) at the University of Western Ontario as Writer-in-Residence. Jobs ’74-’78. Secretary, Mustard Seed Mission until retirement, ’78-’86.
Avison has won several leading awards; two of her books have won the Governor General’s Award. One of Canada’s foremost critics has described her as "probably the most important English-Canadian poet."
Books:
Poetry
Concrete and Wild Carrot.
London: Brick Books, 2002.
Not Yet but Still.
Hantsport, N.S.: Lancelot Press, 1997; Brick Books, 1998.
No time.
Hantsport, N.S.: Lancelot Press, 1989; Brick Books, 1998.
Not Yet but Still.
Lancelot 1997; Brick Books 1998
Selected poems.
Toronto : Oxford University Press, 1991
Winter Sun/ The Dumbfounding : poems, 1940-66 .
Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1982.
sunblue
Hantsport, N.S.: Lancelot Press, 1978; Brick Books
The Cosmic Chef Glee & Perloo Memorial Society under the direction of Captain Poetry presents an evening of concrete (poems by Margaret Avison [and others] edited by B. P. Nichol.); courtesy Oberon Cement Works.
[Ottawa Oberon Press] [c1970]
The Dumbfounding.
New York, Norton [1966]
Winter Sun .
London: Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1960
Prose
A kind of perseverance.
Hantsport, N.S.: Lancelot Press, 1994
A Doctor’s Memoirs (from papers and conversations with Dr. A.I. Wolinsky)
Macmillan, 1960
Acta Sanctorum (translation in collaboration with Ilona Duczynska & Peter Owen, 1966)
History of Ontario [for Grade VII] [illustrations by Selwyn Dewdney].
Toronto : W.J. Gage,1951.
The research compendium; review and abstracts of graduate research, 1942-1962.
Abstracts by Margaret Avison, introductory essays by Margaret Avison and Albert Rose.
Editorial consultant, Florence Strakhovsky.
Published in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the School of Social Work,
University of Toronto.
[Toronto] University of Toronto Press [c1964]
Audio/Visual
Conversation with Margaret Avison : poetry of Margaret Avison (Videocassette) .
Toronto : Univ. of Toronto, Instructional Media Centre, 1971
Six Toronto poets. (Audiocassette).
New York : Folkways Records, 1958.
About the author:
http://www.library.utoronto.ca
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