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- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1978
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889990883
- Publish Date
- Jan 1978
- List Price
- $7.95
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Description
"She is both abstract and concrete; she combines metaphysical speculation with acute observation; she sees things in their everyday detail and also in the context of eternity. She works at and teases the language, like a tangled skein of wool, to render these paradoxes in all the complexity of their ramifications." (Stephen Scobie)
About the author
One of Canada's most respected poets, Margaret Avison was born in Galt, Ontario, lived in Western Canada in her childhood, and then in Toronto. In a productive career that stretched back to the 1940s, she produced seven books of poems, including her first collection, Winter Sun (1960), which she assembled in Chicago while she was there on a Guggenheim Fellowship, and which won the Governor General's Award. No Time (Lancelot Press), a work that focussed on her interest in spiritual discovery and moral and religious values, also won the Governor General's Award for 1990. Avison's published poetry up to 2002 was gathered into Always Now: the Collected Poems (Porcupine's Quill, 2003), including Concrete and Wild Carrot which won the 2003 Griffin Prize. Her most recent book, Listening, Last Poems, was published in 2009 by McClelland & Stewart.
Margaret Avison was the recipient of many awards including the Order of Canada and three honorary doctorates.
Other titles by
The Research Compendium
Review and Abstracts of Graduate Research, 1942-1962
The Research Compendium
Review and Abstracts of Graduate Research, 1942-1962
The Essential Margaret Avison
A Kind of Perseverance
I Am Here and Not Not-There
More Joy in Heaven
Listening
The Last Poems of Margaret Avison
Writing the Terrain
Travelling Through Alberta with the Poets
Always Now
