Margaret Avison, OC (April 23, 1918 – July 31, 2007) was a Canadian poet. The Order of Canada is the highest civilian honour within the Canadian system of honours, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the order's Latin Events 215 BC - A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Year 1918 ( MCMXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Country to "Dominion of Canada" or "Canadian Federation" or anything else please read the Talk Page ^[1]

Avison was born in Galt, Ontario. Cambridge ( 2006 population 124371 is a city located on the Grand River and Speed River Ontario (ɒnˈtɛrioʊ is a province located in the central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest after Quebec She attended Victoria College and the University of Toronto. Victoria University ("Vic" for short is a Federated school of the University of Toronto, consisting of Victoria College and Emmanuel College This article is about the University of Toronto's St George Campus Aside from her poetry, she also worked as a librarian, editor, social worker, and speaker. Her first collection of poems was called The Winter Sun, which won the Governor General's Award. The Governor General's Awards are named in honour of the Governor General of Canada, and are presented in a number of fields Her later collection, No Time, also won the Governor General's Award. In 2003 her work Concrete and Wild Carrot won the Griffin Poetry Prize. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada 's most generous poetry award.

Avison could be considered a spiritual or metaphysical poet. She converted to Christianity in 1963. In 1984 she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) The Order of Canada is the highest civilian honour within the Canadian system of honours, with membership awarded to those who exemplify the order's Latin

Margaret Avison died in Toronto on July 31, 2007, aged 89, from undisclosed causes. Toronto (təˈrɒntoʊ colloquially pronounced or) is the largest city in Canada and is the provincial capital of Ontario Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Poetry 1.2 Prose 2 Works on Margaret Avison 2.1 Books 2.2 Articles 3 References 4 External links

Bibliography

Poetry

• Momentary Dark. McClelland & Stewart, 2006
• "Political Ploy Perhaps" from Momentary Dark, online at CBC Words at Large
• Concrete and Wild Carrot. Events French public notary Patrick Huet unveils Pieces of Hope to the Echo of the World in Lyon. Brick Books, 2002 (winner of the 2003 Canadian Griffin Poetry Prize)
• No Time. Events March 16: Authorities in Saudi Arabia arrested and jailed poet Abdul Mohsen Musalam and fired a newspaper editor following the The Griffin Poetry Prize is Canada 's most generous poetry award. Hantsport, N. S. : Lancelot P, 1989; Brick Books, 1998. Events Dead Poets Society, a film incorporating excerpts from many traditional poets ending with the title and opening line of Walt Whitman's lament on the
• Not Yet but Still. Hantsport, N. S. : Lancelot P, 1997; Brick Books, 1998. Events Samizdat poetry magazine founded in Chicago (it will run until 2004)
• Selected Poems. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1991. Events Forward Poetry Prize created Dana Gioia, writing in The Atlantic Monthly suggests (in an article titled "Can
• Winter Sun/ The Dumbfounding: poems, 1940-66. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1982.
• sunblue. Hantsport, N. S. : Lancelot Press, 1978
• 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. Events L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Magazine edited by Bruce Andrews and Charles Bernstein, first published Stevie, Pilaf, also called polao, pilau or pulao, is a dish in which a grain such as Rice or cracked wheat is browned in oil and then cooked in a P. Nichol. ); courtesy Oberon Cement Works. Ottawa: Oberon Press, 1970
• The Dumbfounding. Events release of Tomfoolery, an animated film directed by Joy Batchelor and John Halas, based on the nonsense verse of Edward Lear New York: Norton, 1966
• Winter Sun. Events Raymond Souster founds the League of Canadian Poets Philip Hobsbaum, who had founded The Belfast Group London: Routledge, Kegan Paul, 1960

Prose

• A kind of perseverance. Events August Derleth launches the poetry magazine Hawk and Whippoorwill. 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. [Toronto] University of Toronto Press [c1964]

Works on Margaret Avison

Books

• Kent, David, ed. Lighting Up The Terrain: The Poetry of Margaret Avison. Toronto: ECW, 1987.
• Margaret Avison and Her Works. Toronto: ECW, 1989.
• Mazoff, Chaim D. Waiting for the Son: Images of Release and Restoration in Margaret Avison's Poetry. Dunvegan, Ont. : Cormorant, 1989.

Articles

• Anderson, Mia. "Conversation with the Star Messenger: An Enquiry into Margaret Avison's Winter Sun. " Studies in Canadian Literature/Etudes en Litterature Canadienne (SCL), 6. 1 (1981): 82-132.
• Bowen, Deborah. "Phoenix from the Ashes: Lorna Crozier and Margaret Avison in Contemporary Mourning. " Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews. 40 (1997): 46-57.
• Calverley, Margaret. "'Service Is Joy': Margaret Avison's Sonnet Sequence in Winter Sun. "Essays on Canadian Writing. 50 (1993): 210-30.
• "The Avison Collection at the University of Manitoba: Poems 1929-89. " Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews. 28 (1991): 54-84.
• Cohn-Sfetcu, Ofelia. "To Live in Abundance of Life: Time in Canadian Literature. " Canadian Literature. 76 (1978): 25-36.
• Guptara, Prabhu S. "A Dark Reservoir of Gladness: Margaret Avison's Third Volume of Verse. "The Literary Criterion. 16. 1 (1981): 42-45.
• Jones, Lawrence M. "A Core of Brilliance: Margaret Avison's Achievement. " Canadian Literature. 38 (1968): 50-57.
• Kent, David A. "Wholehearted Poetry; Halfhearted Criticism. " Essays on Canadian Writing. 44 (1991): 67-78.
• Mazoff, David. "Through the Son: An Explication of Margaret Avison's 'Person. '" Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews. 22: (1988): 40-48.
• Moisan, Clement. "Rina Lasnier et Margaret Avison. " Liberte. 108 (1976): 21-33.
• New, William H. "The Mind's (I's) (Ice): The Poetry of Margaret Avison. " Twentieth Century Literature: A Scholarly and Critical Journal. 16 (1970): 185-202.
• Quinsey, K. M. "The Dissolving Jail-Break in Avison. " Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews. 25 (1989): 21-37.
• Redekop, Ernest H. "Sun/Son Light/Light: Avison's Elemental Sunblue. " Canadian Poetry: Studies, Documents, Reviews. 7 (1980): 21-37.
• Somerville, Christine. "The Shadow of Death: Margaret Avison's 'Just Left or The Night Margaret Laurence Died. '" New, W. H. (ed. ). Inside the Poem: Essays and Poems in Honour of Donald Stephens. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1992: 55-59.
• Sullivan, R. "The Territory of Conscience: The Poetry of Margaret Avison. " Literary Half-Yearly. " 32. 1 (1991): 43-55.
• Zezulka, J. M. "Refusing the Sweet Surrender: Margaret Avison's 'Dispersed Titles'" Canadian Poetry 1 (1977): 44-53.
• Zichy, Francis. "'Each in His Prison/Thinking of the Key': Images of Confinement and Liberation in Margaret Avison. " Studies in Canadian Literature. 3 (1978): 232-43.

Source for list of publications: "100 Canadian Poets" and the Margaret Avison page at the Canadian Poetry website

References

External links

• Margaret Avison's entry in The Canadian Encyclopedia
• Order of Canada Citation
• Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips
• Canada loses 'national treasure' with death of prize-winning poet, from The Vancouver Sun
• Poet Avison's "incalculable" contribution to Canadian literature, from The Globe and Mail
• Poet of the Month from CBC Words at Large (September 2007)

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